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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:

Father to Son - imageFather to Son

How can you be a good father? How often and to what extent do we repeat the behavioural patterns of our fathers; can we change or break these patterns or is repeating them inescapable, and how many generations is needed for change to occur? One of the leading themes of this film is the sensitivity of a man and a boy, and its preservation and suppression.

First Hand Films | 2004 | 70 minutes
Fevers - imageFevers

Dr. Maman moves freely between Western medicine and ancestral magical recipes. FEVERS is an unassuming film whose strength is the depth with which it observes this remarkable healer in action.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 43 minutes
Fight Hate With Love - imageFight Hate With Love

Prison-survivor and activist Michael Ta’Bon leads a one-man movement in his community to help other young men avoid the revolving door of the prison system he’s been trapped in since he was a teen.

MediaStorm | 2017 | 79 minutes | 10-12, college, adults
Fly So Far - imageFly So Far

A grave warning of how far state control of women’s bodies can go, FLY SO FAR follows Teodora Vásquez, who was sentenced to thirty years in a Salvadorean prison after she suffered a stillbirth.

Women Make Movies | 2021 | 89 minutes | College, Adults
Flying People - imageFlying People

The story of master kite flyer Rory Heap, blind from birth.

The Fanlight Collection | 2004 | 24 minutes
Focus - imageFocus

The extra challenges teenagers with learning disabilities face.

The Fanlight Collection | 2003 | 7 minutes
Food Coop - imageFood Coop

Looks at the workings of a highly profitable supermarket, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, which for 44 years has been a shining example of a successful alternative economic system at work.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 97 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Food for Thought - imageFood for Thought

Presents the environmental effects of eating meat.

Bullfrog Films | 1990 | 28 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
For John - imageFor John

The story of John Diabo, cherished member of a tight-knit Mohawk family, tortured by drug addiction.

National Film Board of Canada | 2003 | 52 minutes
Force Of Nature - imageForce Of Nature

Inspirational distillation of the life, thoughts and legacy of famed Canadian scientist, broadcaster and activist, David Suzuki.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 93 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult

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