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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:

Crutch - imageCrutch

Chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punkā€”on crutches.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 96 minutes
Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear - imageCrystal Fear, Crystal Clear

A year in the lives of three families devastated by crystal meth

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 45 minutes
Cuba: The Accidental Revolution - Pt. 2 - imageCuba: The Accidental Revolution - Pt. 2

In spite of the economic crisis and US embargo, the Cuban health system is an outstanding success story around the world.

Bullfrog Films | 2007 | 45 minutes
Cultivating Kids - imageCultivating Kids

On South Whidbey Island, WA, a school farm shows that a garden can be a valuable addition to the curriculum while encouraging a healthy diet.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 23 minutes | 4 - 12, College, Adults
Cyber-Seniors - imageCyber-Seniors

A group of senior citizens take their first steps into cyber-space under the tutelage of teenage mentors

Terra Nova Films | 2014 | 52 minutes
DIRT! The Movie - imageDIRT! The Movie

The story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility, from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 80 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Dance Me to The End of Time - imageDance 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 | 10-12, College, Adults
Day One - imageDay One

Traumatized Middle Eastern and African teen refugees are guided through a program of healing by devoted educators at a unique St. Louis public school for refugees only.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 82 minutes | 6 - 12, College, Adults
Dead Mums Don't Cry - imageDead Mums Don't Cry

Grace Kodindo's heroic efforts in Chad to lower the rate of maternal mortality, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 49 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adult
Dear Dr. Spencer - imageDear Dr. Spencer

The story of Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer, who, in addition to providing routine care to his rural Pennsylvania town, also helped women with, what at the time were illegal, abortions.

Icarus Films | 1998 | 25 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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