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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:

Overworked to Suicide - imageOverworked to Suicide

After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly must work arduous hours for fear of losing their jobs. This often leads to depression and suicide.

MediaStorm | 2014 | 10 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
Packrat - imagePackrat

Examines hoarding behavior, including its links to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

The Fanlight Collection | 2004 | 28 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Pain Brain - imagePain Brain

Pain Brain is a documentary about a massive neuroscience study that challenges the medical industry's approach to chronic pain.

Collective Eye Films | 2021 | 82 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Panjy, Amelia, Justin and Vusumzi - imagePanjy, Amelia, Justin and Vusumzi

Revisits four children in India, Norway, and South Africa, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 50 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Penelope - imagePenelope

What happens when a nursing home decides to throw out the bingo boards and take on the Odyssey instead? Penelope tells the story of how residents collaborate to create “Finding Penelope”, a play reinterpreting Homer’s Odyssey from Penelope’s point of view. As we learn, some heroes stay at home!

371 Productions | 2013 | 53 minutes | College, Adults
Penelope, My Love - imagePenelope, My Love

For 18 years, director Claire Doyon has been filming Pénélope, her daughter with autism. Composed of DV tapes, Super 8 reels and HD archives, Penelope My Love traces the relationship between mother and daughter through different stages – the shock of the diagnosis, the fight against it, the resolve, the acceptance and discovery of a different mode of existence.

Lightdox | 2021 | 88 minutes | College, Adults
Perspectives in Science 2 - imagePerspectives in Science 2
Discussion-starters about ethical dilemmas in managing natural resources.
National Film Board of Canada | 1995 | 59 minutes
Phallacies - imagePhallacies

An unfettered study of the penis's place in history, art, religion, and contemporary life.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 45 minutes | College, Adult
Phoenix Dance - imagePhoenix Dance

Dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer and thought he'd never dance again until choreographer Alonzo King challenged expectations of what it means to be 'disabled.'

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 22 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
PicturePerfect - imagePicturePerfect

This lively and engaging video explores the impact media has on young women's physical, psychological and emotional health, and offers tools to begin dissecting the media that influence our behaviors, attitudes, and values.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 40 minutes

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