BBC This World - Italy's Frontline: A Doctor's Diary (2020) 1080p HDTV x265 AAC MVGroup

Stretchers fill the corridors, oxygen tanks are in short supply and patients die alone without a last word from their loved ones - this is the scene inside a hard-hit hospital in Cremona, northern Italy, at the height of the coronavirus outbreak earlier this year.

This film gives an unprecedented and intimate insight into three months of life on the Covid frontline with A&E doctor Francesca Mangiatordi. In the early days of the outbreak, as the hospital is overflowing, Francesca works gruelling 12-hour shifts caring for the vulnerable who have been most affected by Covid-19. Due to a lack of life-saving equipment, she faces the traumatising task of prioritising which lives to try to save. There are not enough beds for everyone.

At home, Francesca is fearful of infecting her husband, who suffers from a respiratory condition. She hasn’t touched him or her children for more than a month. Her children struggle with life in lockdown - at the same time, they are proud of their mother for her work but fearful that she might bring the virus home.