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128 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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The Other Dave
Life changes people; especially when it involves one billion volts of electricity
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Thirteen Percent
An investigative journey to learn how thirteen percent of America's population have come to constitute over 50% of those infected by the deadly HIV/AIDS virus.
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Panic in Echo Park
A young doctor is accused of causing panic when he warns a community they are in danger from an epidemic
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Aspirin: The Bitter Pill
Aspirin is the best-selling drug in history and has become something of a super drug
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203 Days
An unflinching look at how one family copes with the terminal illness of the matriarch
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I'm Not Nuts: Living With F...
An exploration of food allergy information and solutions through several families
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Pursuit of Loneliness
An elderly woman dies alone in a hospital
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Healthcare: Your Money or Y...
Filmmakers Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno document the deadly consequences of inadequate funding for patients in NYC hospitals
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Fighting in Southwest Louis...
Portrait of a gay rural mailman
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Death by Design: Where Para...
Unconventional voyage into the lives and deaths of our bodies' cells
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The Gift of Life
A look at the leaders of the Pro-Life movement and the lives of individuals who were nearly victims of abortion
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The Culinary Browns
Some people store their histories in albums: my story begins in a cookbook
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99 to 1: Ovarian Cancer and Me
The doctors said they were 99% sure I did not have ovarian cancer. I turned out to be the 1%
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Pictures from Camp
At summer camp child cancer patients, ages 6 to 16 discover room in their lives for normal adolescent experiences.
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Picture Perfect
Explore the impact media has on young women's physical, mental and emotional health with tools to break its influence.
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The Pan-African Express
THE PAN-AFRICAN EXPRESS tells the story of six young men from Morehouse College who visit South Africa for the first time
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Anas Aremeyaw - Ghana's Mad...
This is a tale full of terrible and tragic oddities at Accra 's Psychiatric Hospital (Asylum Down)
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Stuffed
Enter the mind of the compulsive hoarder and see why it’s impossible for some people to throw anything away
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Step on a Crack
Six people with OCD describe how to cope through medication, psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, and mutual support
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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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I Want to Tell You Something
I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING is an emotional family story of four-year-old Oskar, who has been deaf since birth, and his twin brother Leo whose hearing is perfect
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Food Design
A look inside the secret chambers where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow
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Mr. Graham
A young man attempts to come to terms with his inner demons
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100+
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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Asparagus
Introverted and cerebral, Dekard is an agricultural engineer who monitors a regimented greenhouse laboratory that produces hybrid asparagus
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Sweetness and Art
For fine cuisine, where is the line between food as mere sustenance and as fine art?
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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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Left in Baghdad
An American soldier returns from Iraq without his left arm and adapts to life with new physical challenges
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Berlin Calling
On the eve of his largest album release, a DJ is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig
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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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Vanished Empire
A cinematic love letter to a unique moment in the lives of the Soviet youth
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Seed
In a world of genetically modified agriculture, a heirloom seed black market grows
