
Antibiotic Resistance
Bacteria are outpacing the drugs built to kill them. This film lays out how antibiotic misuse in hospitals and overuse in farming have accelerated resistance, even as prescriptions in many countries keep climbing rather than falling. Doctors interviewed describe infections that once responded to standard treatment and now do not, a shift they treat as a warning sign rather than a rare exception. The film weighs two futures: one in which resistant bacteria erode decades of medical progress and routine surgery becomes dangerous again, and one in which researchers find new ways to outmaneuver the microbes before that happens. It does not resolve which future is coming, framing antibiotic resistance as a race already underway between drug development and bacterial evolution, with farming practices and prescribing habits as the levers still within human control.