American Doctor (2026)

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Synopsis

Dir: Poh Si Teng. English/Arabic-language Documentary. In 2025, three American doctors from different ethnic backgrounds travel to Gaza to work in hospitals, and witness indiscriminate violence against civilians, including children.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent depictions of weapons violence - no blood, little detail; frequent depictions of corpses, including children - blood and some disturbing detail
• Frequent depictions of injury, medical procedures, and surgery in the context of war, most involving children and infants - some blood, disturbing detail
• Frequent references to war, genocide, death, and dying – some detail

Thematic elements

• The atrocities of war
• Perspectives on Gaza
• Medical aid and humanitarianism

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for disturbing content and mature subject matter

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