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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:

Lest We Forget: Silent Voices - imageLest We Forget: Silent Voices

Documenting the least-known part of the civil rights movement, these are the first-person stories of people with developmental disabilities labeled 'mentally defective' who were sent away to state institutions.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 42 minutes
Let Them Eat Cake - imageLet Them Eat Cake

A look at the processed food industry and at the ways that junk food and beverages are marketed to children

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 33 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Let Them Eat Dirt - imageLet Them Eat Dirt

Looks at the role microbes play in the development, physical and mental health of our children, and argues that good health begins with kids playing in the dirt.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 57 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Let's Face It-Women Explore Their Aging Faces - imageLet's Face It-Women Explore Their Aging Faces

A touching and honest glimpse into the intimate self-explorations of several women in their 40's, 50's, and 60's as they face the natural reality of sags and bags, lines and wrinkles.

Terra Nova Films | 2002 | 26 minutes
Letters from our Lives - imageLetters from our Lives

Disabled women write open letters to the world about their plight.

Bullfrog Films | 1992 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Liberation: The User's Guide - imageLiberation: The User's Guide

Julia, Ina, Olga and Katia are inmates held in a Siberian mental facility against their wishes.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 80 minutes
Life - A-OK? - imageLife - A-OK?

Examines prospects for Vitamin A distribution programs in Guatemala and Ghana necessary for children's health.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
All Different, All Equal - imageAll Different, All Equal
Examines progress in women's rights globally.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Life - An Act of Faith - imageLife - An Act of Faith

A group of health professionals tours the most deprived regions of South Africa providing care.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 25 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Credit Where Credit is Due - imageCredit Where Credit is Due
Micro-credit organization in Bangladesh provides loans to village poor.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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