The Anatomists

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

In the Press

"Only to be watched with your eyes shut."
Daily Express

"Excellent history series on a most lugubrious science."
The Guardian

"…well worth watching…An extraordinary story."
The Times

"...fascinating documentary."
The Sunday Times

"Intriguing stuff"
The Independent

The Series

30 flayed human corpses put on public show in London. They are the macabre creations of a modern Frankenstein, German anatomist Gunther von Hagens. His Body Worlds exhibition has provoked outrage abroad but the crowds keep coming - over eight million people so far. But he is not the first to have dragged anatomy out of the shadows.

The Anatomists tells the history of this morbid science, from gladiatorial rings of ancient Rome to the public dissections of the Renaissance and on to the endemic grave robbing of 19th century Britain. The foundations of modern medicine have been laid at a very bloody price.

Episode 1 - The Showmen

Episode 2 - The Body Snatchers

Episode 3 - A modern Frankenstein

Credits

Series Producer

Mark Lewis

Executive Producers

Ian Duncan
Oliver Morse

Directors

Kate Barker
Deborah Coleman
Mark Lewis

Composer

Daniel Pemberton

Narrator

Paul Brightwell

Photography

Jeff Baynes
Mike Coles

3x50'

Distributed by Channel 4 International