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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:

Birth on the Border - imageBirth on the Border

Seeking a safer future for their children, two women from Ciudad Juárez, risk harassment at the hands of Border Patrol to cross the US-Mexico border legally to give birth in El Paso, Texas.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 28 minutes
Bisexual Virgins - imageBisexual Virgins

Tina and Samantha are unsure about their sexual identity but want to explore the possibility that they may be bisexual.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 43 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Black Diamonds - imageBlack Diamonds

Examines the escalating drama in Appalachia over mountaintop removal mining.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 72 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adult
Blind Trust - imageBlind Trust

Examines the lifetime work of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Vamik Volkan, a psychiatrist who brings enemy groups together for dialogue in traumatized areas of the globe.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 58 minutes
Blood Manifesto - imageBlood Manifesto

A disturbing personal meditation on the shedding blood for one's ideals.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 2 minutes
Bloodline: AIDS and Family - imageBloodline: AIDS and Family

AIDS and Family is Kristen Ashburn's intimate portrait of African mothers, fathers and children being crushed by AIDS. Ashburn's work connects us to these people deeply; we learn that only through such connection is hope possible.

MediaStorm | 2006 | 12 minutes | 10-12, college, adults
Blue Vinyl - imageBlue Vinyl

Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.

Bullfrog Films | 2004 | 97 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Bombies - imageBombies

The terrible aftermath of dropping cluster bombs during the secret air war in Laos and the international campaign to ban them.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Borderline Cases - imageBorderline Cases

The environmental impact of the 2,000 factories (maquiladoras) on the US-Mexico border.

Bullfrog Films | 1997 | 65 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Boy In The World - imageBoy In The World

Following four-year-old Ronen, a young boy with Down syndrome, this intimate documentary concretely demonstrates that inclusive preschool classrooms benefit both children with special needs and their typical peers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 44 minutes

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