ATLANTA — Two nurses have lost their licenses after a television station persuaded courts to unseal a video secretly recorded by the family of a man who died in their care.

The video shows the World War II veteran repeatedly calling for help in his nursing home, saying he can’t breathe. It also shows the nurses failing to take life-saving measures and laughing as they try to start an oxygen machine.

The family of 89-year-old James Dempsey of Woodstock, Ga., sued the Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center in 2014.

Dempsey’s family declined to comment, citing a settlement with the nursing home, WXIA-TV said.

A statement from the center said care has improved since then, under different leadership. But WXIA said the nurses didn’t surrender their licenses until this September, after it sent the Georgia Board of Nursing a link to the video the nursing home fought three years to keep secret.