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The Fanlight Collection

The Fanlight Collection has a special focus on healthcare, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, disabilities, the workplace, and gender and family issues.

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The Fanlight Collection includes the following titles:

Gambling Boys - imageGambling Boys

Looks at the growing problem of gambling addiction among teenagers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2010 | 46 minutes | 7-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Good Days, Bad Days - imageGood Days, Bad Days

Profiles of people who love and support someone who is struggling with mental illness

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 22 minutes
Grief in America - imageGrief in America

A comprehensive look at how our culture deals with loss in all its forms.

The Fanlight Collection | 1997 | 57 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
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
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
In Our Midst - imageIn Our Midst

Looks at the challenges that families face after a newborn is releaseed from a neonatal intensive care unit.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 56 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
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
Ladies in Waiting - imageLadies in Waiting

A profile of the Kitambo maternity clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing the pressures of economic forces on health care delivery in poor countries.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 24 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult

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