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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:

I Had An Abortion - imageI Had An Abortion

Powerful and fiercely honest, I HAD AN ABORTION tackles the taboo of discussing abortion.

Women Make Movies | 2005 | 55 minutes | College, Adults
I Like Girls - imageI Like Girls

Animated stories of first love.

National Film Board of Canada | 2016 | 8 minutes
I Won't Go - imageI Won't Go

Oli Truss is an eccentric ex-headmistress in her 90's and her story brings home the complex issues of self-neglect, competence and capacity, and the right to live and die at home with dignity.

Terra Nova Films | 2010 | 28 minutes
Ida's Diary - imageIda's Diary

A young Norwegian woman with Borderline personality disorder, struggling with a turbulent emotional life, keeps a video diary to ease her mind and to structure her thoughts.

First Hand Films | 2014 | 56 minutes
Imaginary Feasts - imageImaginary Feasts

In Nazi concentration camps, Japanese war camps and Gulag labor camps, starving prisoners risked their lives to document fantasy recipes.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 70 minutes
In Our Midst - imageIn Our Midst

Looks at the challenges that families face after a newborn is releaseed from a neonatal intensive care unit.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 56 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
In Our Own Hands - imageIn Our Own Hands

In Our Own Hands follows the extraordinary steps ordinary people are taking to help millions with chronic diseases find their way back to health.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 67 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
In Search of Memory - imageIn Search of Memory

The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 95 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Incarcerating US - imageIncarcerating US

Exposes America's prison problem and explores various criminal justice reforms.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 84 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
Insecticides: A License to Kill - imageInsecticides: A License to Kill

The insect apocalypse is here and pesticides are to blame.

Icarus Films | 2022 | 58 minutes

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