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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:

Helen Nearing - imageHelen Nearing

A moving portrait of the lives and deaths of homesteading authors, Helen and Scott Nearing.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 56 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Hidden Wounds - imageHidden Wounds

Explores this painful reality of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the stories of three veterans and their struggles to overcome the trauma of their experiences.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 57 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Hold Your Breath - imageHold Your Breath

A devout Muslim immigrant faces possible death from stomach cancer but cultural and linguistic confusions complicate his treatment in an American hospital.

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 58 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Home For Life - imageHome For Life

The experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged.

Kartemquin Films | 1966 | 80 minutes
Homo Toxicus - imageHomo Toxicus

Explores the links between the hundreds of toxic pollutants in our environment and increasing health problems.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 88 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Horses of Suffield - imageHorses of Suffield
A chronicle of the emotional story of the environmental factors and decisions that spelled the end for Canada's largest herd of wild horses.
National Film Board of Canada | 1999 | 47 minutes
How Happy Can You Be? - imageHow Happy Can You Be?

What is happiness? And how do we get more of it? Visiting leading figures in positive psychology and observing clinical experiments, this is a light-hearted but serious investigation.

Icarus Films | 2005 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
How I Coped When Mommy Died - imageHow I Coped When Mommy Died

13-year-old Brett Hardy Blake presents how he dealt with the loss of his mother to breast cancer.

The Fanlight Collection | 1999 | 26 minutes | College/Adult/Prof/K-12
Hubert Reeves Star Teller - imageHubert Reeves Star Teller
A conversation with astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, who has the special talent of combining science, humanism, and a deep affection for our planet and universe.
National Film Board of Canada | 2003 | 52 minutes
Hungry Horse: Legends of the Every Day - imageHungry Horse: Legends of the Every Day

Hungry Horse captures the spirit of renewal, peace and serenity through the stunning landscapes of Hungry Horse, MT, and the intimate oral histories of its citizens.

MediaStorm | 2014 | 42 minutes | 7-12, college, adults

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