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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:

Alive! - imageAlive!

What happens when five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute drop?

Icarus Films | 2014 | 80 minutes
All About My Sisters - imageAll About My Sisters

Qiong Wang boldly explores her family's history and the ongoing consequences of China's one-child policy.

dGenerate Films | 2021 | 175 minutes
Almost Home - imageAlmost Home

Almost Home is a stunningly intimate feature-length, cinema verité film that follows the stories of residents, families and workers in a Midwestern nursing home as they struggle with the personal challenges of aging while trying to transform their century-old hospital-like institution into a true home.

371 Productions | 2005 | 84 minutes | College, Adults
Alzheimers and African Americans - imageAlzheimers and African Americans

Alzheimer's in the African-American community.

Terra Nova Films | 2007 | 27 minutes
Ama - imageAma

The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
An Ecology of Mind - imageAn Ecology of Mind

A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 60 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
Anthropocene - imageAnthropocene

Examines whether human impact has tipped the planet into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, with all of its political, social and behavioral implications.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 97 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Are the Kids Alright? - imageAre the Kids Alright?

Filmed in courtrooms, correctional institutions, treatment centers, and family homes, this searing documentary examines the results of the tragic decline in mental health services for children and adolescents at risk.

The Fanlight Collection | 2004 | 57 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Ask the Sexpert - imageAsk the Sexpert

A longtime sex advice columnist gains popularity against the backdrop of a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools in India.

GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 83 minutes
Atomic Homefront - imageAtomic Homefront

ATOMIC HOMEFRONT shines an urgent and devastating light on the lasting toxic effects that nuclear waste can have on communities.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 96 minutes

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