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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:

Life to Come - imageLife to Come

Twins Eden and LĂ©andro were born prematurely. Once out of the belly of their mother, they are propelled into the hostile and worrying world of the hospital.

First Hand Films | 2016 | 74 minutes
Like Any Other Kid - imageLike Any Other Kid

Follows the intimate relationships between incarcerated youth and staff who use love and structure to guide and teach youth offenders how to take responsibility for themselves.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 89 minutes
Litigating Disaster - imageLitigating Disaster

December 3, 1984. Bhopal, India. The worst chemical disaster of all time. How has Union Carbide manipulated the US and Indian legal systems for 20 years to avoid facing justice?

Icarus Films | 2004 | 52 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Little Big Girls - imageLittle Big Girls

Explores the phenomenon of early-onset puberty.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 52 minutes
Living Under the Cloud - imageLiving Under the Cloud

A sobering look at the Chernobyl disaster, with exclusive home video footage.

Bullfrog Films | 1994 | 59 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Living the Good Life - imageLiving the Good Life

A portrait of the daily life of America's most famous back-to-the-landers.

Bullfrog Films | 1977 | 30 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Login 2 Life - imageLogin 2 Life

Profiles seven people who spend most of their lives in online virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft.

Icarus Films | 2012 | 86 minutes | 8-12, college, adult
Long Story Short - imageLong Story Short

Over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers discuss their experiences of poverty.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 45 minutes
Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women's Project - imageLook Us in the Eye: The Old Women's Project

Founders of the Old Women's Project, an activist organization that challenges ageism

Terra Nova Films | 2007 | 25 minutes
Love & Diane - imageLove & Diane

LOVE & DIANE is at its heart a highly charged story about a mother and daughter searching for love, redemption and hope for a new future.

Women Make Movies | 2002 | 155 minutes | College, Adults

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