Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin (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.
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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)
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