American Doctor forces audiences to confront the carnage inflicted on Gaza’s civilians, particularly children, early and often. For anyone who somehow avoided footage of dead babies across social media in 2025, the film offers a corrective almost immediately. One doctor argues it would be “journalistic malpractice” not to show the corpses, claiming that omitting them in the name of dignity is actually a form of sane-washing what is going on, a sanitization that  actually only strips the dead of their humanity. The only way to cede dignity, he argues, is to show the truth, no matter how horrifying. Read More