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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:

Phallacies - imagePhallacies

An unfettered study of the penis's place in history, art, religion, and contemporary life.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 45 minutes | College, Adult
Phoenix Dance - imagePhoenix Dance

Dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer and thought he'd never dance again until choreographer Alonzo King challenged expectations of what it means to be 'disabled.'

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 22 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
PicturePerfect - imagePicturePerfect

This lively and engaging video explores the impact media has on young women's physical, psychological and emotional health, and offers tools to begin dissecting the media that influence our behaviors, attitudes, and values.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 40 minutes
Pilots on the Way Home - imagePilots on the Way Home

A satirical meditation on male-female relations, told via three airplane pilots, inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 16 minutes
Plan F - imagePlan F

A demonstration of the power of recovery and reinvention when life forces a change of plans -- in this case the loss of eyesight at age 20.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 25 minutes
Plane Truths - imagePlane Truths

With the "Pivot to Asia" increased activity at the navy base on Whidbey Island, WA is making life unbearable for locals and wildlife — collateral damage in the ever increasing militarization of our society.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 33 minutes | 7 - 9, Colleges, Adults
Planeat - imagePlaneat

Makes the case for a plant-based diet which is good for our bodies, good for the environment and mitigates climate change.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 72 minutes | 7-9, College, Adults
Plastic Paradise - imagePlastic Paradise

Angela Sun reveals the effects of our rabid plastic consumption as she investigates The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Play Again - imagePlay Again

What are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature? Six screen-addicted teens take their first wilderness adventure.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 80 minutes | 6-12, College, Adult
Poison in the Rockies - imagePoison in the Rockies

Threats to water quality in the Colorado Rockies.

Bullfrog Films | 1990 | 56 minutes | Grades 9-12, College, Adult

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