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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:

A Way to B - imageA Way to B

Gorgeous images of dances, stunning while thought provoking: the dancers are handicapped.

First Hand Films | 2023 | 98 minutes | College, Adults
A Will for the Woods - imageA Will for the Woods

Clark Wang's passionate wish for a legacy of green burials inspires a profoundly affecting and optimistic portrait of people finding meaning in death.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 61 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Able to Laugh - imageAble to Laugh

Enter the world of disability as interpreted by six professional comics, who happen to be disabled.

The Fanlight Collection | 1993 | 27 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Abortion Helpline - imageAbortion Helpline

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes
Acting Blind - imageActing Blind

Takes audiences behind the scenes as a company of non-professional actors rehearse a play about life without sight. The performers have no problem imagining themselves in these roles: they are blind themselves.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 52 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Addicted to Plastic - imageAddicted to Plastic

Reveals the history and worldwide scope of plastics pollution, investigates its toxicity and explores solutions.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 85 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Addiction Incorporated - imageAddiction Incorporated

The true story of the tobacco companies' commitment to addicting the human brain and how the world came to know about it.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 76 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
After Tiller - imageAfter Tiller

Sheds a humanistic light on the heated abortion debate by going inside the lives of the last four doctors in America who openly provide third-trimester abortions and the reasons their patients seek them.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 88 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
After the Spill - imageAfter the Spill

The oil and gas industry has historically dominated Louisiana politics and is largely responsible for the state's rapidly disappearing coastline.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 62 minutes | 7 -12, Colleges, Adults
Agent Orange - imageAgent Orange

A look at the long-term effects, on U.S. soldiers, the Vietnamese people, and the environment of Vietnam, of the spraying of Agent Orange on Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 66 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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