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112 Health & Food Films
Health Issues and Food for Thought
Sink your teeth into our collection of food and health documentaries, including: Dying to Have Known, one man's quest for proof of a long-suppressed natural cancer cure; and, the Oscar short-listed Under Our Skin, the untold story of the Lyme disease epidemic.
Related Topics: AIDS, Depression, Drugs, Farm, Fishing, Health, Health Care, Heroin, Medical, Mental Illness, Nutrition
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Shadows and Lies: The Unsee...
Four women work free from the deadly grip of eating disorders, and the complications associated with these diseases
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A Plastic Story
The remarkable history of the surprising origins and development of this now common medical field of plastic surgery
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One in 2000
Profiles of people born intersex with anatomy that doesn't clearly mark them as either male or female
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Inside Out: Stories of Bulimia
Profiles of women and men from all walks of life with bulimia, killer of nearly 20 percent of its victims every year
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After traveling to Ikaria to die a peaceful death, traditional food, good wine, and the Ikarian winds seem to have had different plans for retiree Mr. Stamatis Moraitis, who is enjoying his days with adolescent vitality
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Maria
Life in a wheelchair might be utterly hopeless for some people; not for Maria
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Sustainable Table: What's O...
A feature documentary that takes an unadulterated look at the food you eat -- what’s on your plate?
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HIV: DC
HIV: USA is a nationwide creative writing and documentary film project that features participants living with HIV/AIDS
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Exposure
In a world where people are employed as live body contagions to immunize urban populations, an unvaccinated man resists
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Silver Sling
In the polarized economy of the future, corporations offer incentives to their female employees for surrogate pregnancies
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There is a Fault in Reality
A moving, inspiring and often shocking story that gives an insider's view of schizophrenia
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Live Free or Die
Follows the filmmakers' search for an answer to why, despite violence and harassment, some doctors continue to provide abortions
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The Philippines: Life, Deat...
Jon Alpert travels to the Philippines to record the lives of people of societal strata, documenting class disparities
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The Story of Vinh
The story of Vietnamese youth's assimilation into American Society, transitioning from youth to adulthood
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Junkie Junior
A five-year portrait of Junior Rios' descent into the black hole of heroin addiction which will ultimately cost him everything
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Because of Salim Others Hav...
A family discusses how the decision to donate their son's organs helped another family to live well
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Secret People
A shocking history of leprosy, told by the victims who live in the last remaining leprosy sanatorium in Carville, Louisiana
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The Tijuana Project: Una Lu...
The story of six children growing up in the Tijuana garbage dump and the hope of their school
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Chez Schwartz
Chez Schwartz takes us inside a year in the life of Schwartz's Deli, the unique 83-year-old landmark on Montreal's historic Main
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HIV: WA
HIV: USA is a nationwide creative writing and documentary film project that features participants living with HIV/AIDS
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Tourette de France
A group of teenage tourette sufferers take a trip to France to find out more about the condition
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Black Dawn - The Next Pandemic
BLACK DAWN employs all the tools of documentary and drama to paint a starkly realistic picture of life during a pandemic
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My Son Thain
Witness how the struggles of autism affect the lives of a mother and her son as she attempts to provide him with a normal life
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Dreamland
A penetrating look at compulsive gambling in America, from state lotteries to Indian casinos to Las Vegas
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The Kitchen
Two busy nights in one of the world's finest kitchens in pursuit of the dream
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Loving Lampposts
After his sons diagnosis, filmmaker Todd Drezner visits the front lines of the autism wars
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Uninsured in the Mississipp...
Inhabitants of the Mississippi Delta grapple daily with an impossible dilemma: food or medicine
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Aquafinito
Why do consumers ignore our most 'green' source of drinking water - the tap? A simple taste test yields eye-opening results
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Denied
Simultaneously battling cancer and abandonment by her insurance company, one woman fights for her right to health care
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The Thousand Yard Stare
An unflinching insight into a state of mind and its disturbing consequences
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Sierra Leone: Where Every P...
Sierra Leone has many challenges ahead including improving child and maternal health.
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First Generation
Pioneering doctors like Dr. Rodica Matusa are working with the survivors of an AIDS epidemic in Romania.
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Chocolate Country
Cacao farmers get a hand from the Loma Guacnojo cooperative.
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Two Things Involved
A small group of devoted healthcare workers educate their communities about HIV/AIDS.
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Earth Focus Episode 21: Per...
Earth Focus looks at the true costs of the soybean industry in Latin America.
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A River of Waste: The Hazar...
This heart-stopping documentary exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our meat and poultry production system.
