Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

  • Run time: 1 min
  • Premiere: 2021. May 17.

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.

Discover

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)

Camera

Stirling Bancroft

Director of Photography

Directing

Mark Ratzlaff

Director

Production

Mark Ratzlaff

Producer

Erica Landrock

Producer

Sound

Writing