《白求恩：一个英雄的成长》该片根据加拿大作家同名小说改编，讲述了献身于中国抗战事业的加拿大胸外科医生白求恩的生平事迹。是菲力浦·博萨斯、王心刚联合执导的人物传记影片，唐纳德·萨瑟兰主演，于1990年8月27日在加拿大首映。 影片从1938年白求恩抵达中国武汉开始，到1939年白求恩因败血症死于河北唐县结束，其间不断闪回1925年至1937年，通过观照爱情事业和考量思想作为，将中国人民的印象认识与白求恩夫人、师友的感受评价联系起来。 Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys one thousand five hundred miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife, Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials, until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.