Louise Joy Brown may be the first success story for IVF, but Joy focuses more on the development of the procedure, with Louise appearing only briefly.

The new Netflix movie "Joy" is about the British doctors who helped conceive the first IVF baby in the late 1970s.

Joy has now arrived on Netflix to tell the remarkable true story of the scientific breakthrough of IVF. The movie explores how Jean Purdy, Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards worked tirelessly throughout the 1960s and 1970s to pioneer IVF, culminating in the birth of the world's first 'test-tube baby', Louise Joy Brown, on July 25, 1978.

Inspired by the true story of the development of the first IVF baby, Joy accurately retraces the steps that brought the scientific breakthrough.

Louise Joy Brown was the first baby to be born through IVF in 1978, and her birth was labelled as one of "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century"

Netflix’s period drama film ‘Joy’ chronicles the efforts of three pioneers to invent the in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure that paves the way for the birth of Louise Joy Brown. As the movie depicts,

This charming and winning movie charts the decade-long true story of how the world’s first IVF baby was born in England in 1978 — a 5-pound, 12-ounce girl who paved the way for millions more. It’s an upbeat,