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104 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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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: NYC
HIV: USA is a nationwide creative writing and documentary film project that features participants living with HIV/AIDS
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HIV: RI
HIV: USA is a nationwide creative writing and documentary film project that features participants living with HIV/AIDS
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HIV: ID
HIV: USA is a nationwide creative writing and documentary film project that features participants living with HIV/AIDS
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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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Two Angry Moms
What are our children eating in school and how is it impacting their learning, behavior and health?
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Meth
Warning: Adult Content - Filmmaker Todd Ahlberg explores the harrowing consequences of crystal methamphetamine addiction.
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Dying to Have Known
Is the long-suppressed form of cancer treatment known as Gerson Therapy as effective as some cancer survivors claim it to be?
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The Beautiful Truth
The World's Simplest Cure for Cancer
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Visiting Shane
When told her son was going to die, Shane's mother wished for a miracle. It arrived in the form of three strangers.
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Dakota's Pride
Dakota's Pride is a heartwarming documentary about a father's search for the truth about Down Syndrome
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Heroin Town
HEROIN TOWN follows the people of Willimantic, Connecticut as they try to restore the damage that destroyed their hometown
