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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:

Into The Night (Part 1) - imageInto The Night (Part 1)

Intimate, provocative stories of men and women forever changed by their encounters with mortality. Through the lens of astrophysics, art, cryonics, near death experiences and green burials, they challenge us to rethink our place in the universe. These dramatic, first-person accounts unsettle, awaken, and inspire.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 141 minutes
Into The Night (Part 2) - imageInto The Night (Part 2)

Intimate, provocative stories of men and women forever changed by their encounters with mortality.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 141 minutes
Into the Other Lane - imageInto the Other Lane

Real-life stories about when and how to deal with the emotional issue of giving up driving.

Terra Nova Films | 2010 | 56 minutes
Invisible Frontliners - imageInvisible Frontliners

There are jobs without which society would not function. Who are those caretakers, the people who keep everyday life going, who keep the homes clean, provide food, and make it possible for the rest of us to live and work comfortably even during a pandemic? A tender yet radical tale of those who make sure society’s basics keep working even in time of crises; proudly and pragmatically told by themselves.

First Hand Films | 2022 | 50 minutes
Is It the Right Time?  The Nursing Home Decision - imageIs It the Right Time? The Nursing Home Decision

Following up on More Than a Thousand Tomorrows, Is It the Right Time deals with the tough decision of nursing home placement

Terra Nova Films | 2010 | 13 minutes
It Is Not Over Yet - imageIt Is Not Over Yet

Cake and bubbly instead of medicated immobilisation: IT IS NOT OVER YET portrays a controversial new treatment for people with dementia. They have named it 'care treatment': hugs, touch, talking, humour, eye contact and the joy of community are the prescription.

First Hand Films | 2021 | 94 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
It's My Life - imageIt's My Life

Follows HIV-positive South African activist Zackie Achmat, who refuses to take life-saving anti-retroviral drugs until they are made available by the government.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 72 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Jackson - imageJackson

Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare in America.

Collective Eye Films | 2018 | 93 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Jordan River Anderson Messenger - imageJordan River Anderson Messenger

Alanis Obomsawin's 52rd film tells the story of how the life of Jordan River Anderson initiated a battle for the right of First Nations children to receive the same standard of social, health and educational services as the rest of the Canadian population.

National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 65 minutes
Kabul Transit - imageKabul Transit

A street-level documentary that explores the soul of a city devastated by nearly three decades of war.

Bullfrog Films | 2007 | 84 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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