Film

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

20211m

Director: Mark Ratzlaff
Year: 2021

Scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his life-threatening diagnosis of diabetes.

Top cast

Jeremy Schuetze

Dr. Frederick Banting

Dean Petriw

Leonard Thompson

Jewel Staite

Nurse Anna

Em Haine

Nurse May

Troy Mundle

Mr. Thompson

Duane Keogh

John Macleod

Craig Haas

James Collip

Johnny Sutherland

Charles Best

Ken McNicol

Dr. Walter Campbell

Malaika Jackson

Little Girl's Mother

Victor Garber

Narrator (voice)

Directed by

Mark Ratzlaff

Written by

Mark Ratzlaff, Nimisha Mukerji

Produced by

Mark Ratzlaff, Erica Landrock, Nimisha Mukerji