Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by Dr. David Feldshuh. The film was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards and won in four categories, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie.

In 1932 Macon County, Alabama, the federal government launched into a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. The study selected 412 men infected with the disease and faked long term treatment, while really only giving them placebos and liniments. The premise of the action was to determine if blacks reacted similar to whites to the overall effects of the disease. The experiment was only discontinued 40 years later when a Senate investigation was initiated. At that time, only 127 of the original study group were left alive. The story is told from the point of view of Nurse Eunice Evers, who was well aware of the lack of treatment being offered, but felt her role was to console the involved men, many of whom were her direct friends. In fact the movie's name comes from the fact that a performing dancer and three musicians named their act for her - "Miss Evers' Boys". All had the disease. A romance with one goes unrequited even after he joins the army during world war II and is treated and cured by penicillin. As the result of the Senate investigation, the medical experimentation on humans has been curbed. The survivors of the study did receive treatment and financial compensation after the Senate Investigation. Written by John Sacksteder

In the days of the Great Depression, the US Government orders a medical experiment into the treatment and lack thereof of syphilis in African Americans. Told from the perspective of a small town nurse, "Miss Evers' Boys" shows the complete history of this project from its origins in the 1930s, throughout the Second World War, and into the late 40s and early 50s when the US Senate shuts down the project after deeming it immoral and illegal. Written by Anthony Hughes

The true story of the U.S. Federal Government's secret medical experiments on southern blacks in the 1930's: A group of down-on-their-luck black men are lured into a "medical care program" for syhpilis, only to be allowed to die when they subcuum to the disease so that their deterioration can be documented. Written by Jango