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Before Flying Back to the Earth

Building on the long earned trust of the children towards the camera, the filmmaker skilfully applies a simple but highly effective narrative and thus manages to create an extraordinary film that avoids sentimentality but stays deeply moving.

First Hand Films | 2005 | 52 minutes

Blue 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

The Body Beautiful

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond

Women Make Movies | 1992 | 23 minutes

Busting Out

An exploration of the history and politics of breast obsession in America, and its connection with breast cancer, breastfeeding and body image.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 57 minutes

Cheshire, Ohio

Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 75 minutes

Community Voices

A multi-cultural array of patients, clinicians, and other healthcare workers explore the many ways that differences in culture, race and ethnicity affect health and the delivery of healthcare services.

The Fanlight Collection | 2001 | 69 minutes

Complicit

A benzene-poisoned, Foxconn factory worker takes his fight against the global smartphone industry from his hospital bed in China to the international stage.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 89 minutes

Cracking Cancer

A clinical research trial at the Personalized OncoGenomics Program is changing the way scientists think about the future of cancer care.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 44 minutes

Dance Me to The End of Time

Award-winning filmmaker Melanie Chait documents the last four years of her life-partner, outspoken lesbian, artist and theatre director, Nancy Diuguid's life, as she fights breast cancer.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 80 minutes

Facing Ovarian Cancer: A Woman's Guide

Roughly one in a hundred women will develop ovarian cancer. This film is designed for women who have just been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, for their families and friends, and for the physicians and nurses who work with them.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 120 minutes