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The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection

THE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE COLLECTION features over 400 award-winning films on health, healthcare and medicine from the leading distributors of social-issue and documentary film. Films address addiction and substance abuse, aging, death and dying, disabilities, economics of healthcare, environmental health, ethics, healthcare delivery, history of medicine, illness, disease and disorders, maternal and child health, psychology and mental health, public health, nursing, nutrition, sexuality, and more. Docuseek films examine health and healthcare in its social and historical context; essential resources for helping students to respond better to the challenges of today.

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The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection includes the following titles:

Deconstructing Supper - imageDeconstructing Supper

A leading chef investigates food safety in the age of GMOs and industrial agriculture.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 48 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Denial - imageDenial

A film about electricity, identity, family, and about the many ways we lie to ourselves when faced with overwhelming facts. It is the story of a family coming to terms with hard personal truths against the backdrop of a global crisis.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 92 minutes | 10 -12, College, Adults
Diabetes: A Heavy Cost - imageDiabetes: A Heavy Cost

Diabetes will affect one adult in 10 by 2040. It is ruining lives and weighing heavily on public finances. The disease is still not being treated properly. A whole system has gone off track because patients either take too many drugs or can no longer afford them. Only the pharmaceutical industry seems to be thriving in this bleak health situation.

Andana Films | 2021 | 85 minutes
Diet for a Small Planet - imageDiet for a Small Planet

Frances Moore Lappe shows how to practice vegetarianism and address world hunger.

Bullfrog Films | 1974 | 28 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Dirty Business - imageDirty Business

Reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and looks at promising developments in renewable energy technology.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 90 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Do Communists Have Better Sex? - imageDo Communists Have Better Sex?

In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?

Icarus Films | 2006 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Donka: X-Ray of an African Hospital - imageDonka: X-Ray of an African Hospital

Daily life in the largest public hospital in the Republic of Guinea

Icarus Films | 1996 | 59 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Donna's Story - imageDonna's Story

An intimate portrait of a fiercely determined survivor -- Donna, a Cree woman who left behind a bleak existence on the streets.

National Film Board of Canada | 2001 | 51 minutes
Double Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR - imageDouble Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR

Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 52 minutes
Downwind/Downstream - imageDownwind/Downstream

Water quality for major southwest cities is threatened by mining, acid rain, urbanization.

Bullfrog Films | 1988 | 59 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult

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