Beneath the shimmering veneer of modern medicine exists an undeniable predicament—the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In what appears to be a documentary, Race against resistance: the life and death struggle to save antibiotics, the AMR Action Fund, a Venture Capitalists’ Fund that enables discoveries in the development of antimicrobials, brings us up to speed on the antimicrobial innovation pipeline. Premiered on 5 September on the YouTube channel of the BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, a BBC department making marketing materials on behalf of other organisations (in this case, the AMR Action Fund), this commercial content appears non-editorialised by the BBC.