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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:

Elder Voices - imageElder Voices

Japanese Americans, European Jews and peace activists who came of age during the Depression and WWII address the political storm clouds gathering today.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 49 minutes | 7 - 9, 10 - 12, College, Adult
Encounters with Grief - imageEncounters with Grief

Moving perspectives on coping with the death of loved ones, and the process of recovery

The Fanlight Collection | 1992 | 13 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Ending Disease - imageEnding Disease


Establishes that we are in a historical time in medicine, where regenerative medicine is changing therapies from treatments to cures. The film takes the viewer through a powerful emotional journey as it weaves human stories of patients and their doctor working together on the frontier of medical science.

Collective Eye Films | 2020 | 122 minutes
Epilepsy: The Untold Story - imageEpilepsy: The Untold Story

'This program focuses on people who experience complex partial seizures, and whose symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed as psychiatric or emotional disorders.'

The Fanlight Collection | 1993 | 27 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Erasing Hate - imageErasing Hate

A remarkable story of transformation and redemption, Erasing Hate tells the journey of Bryon Widner out of the world of race hatred. The painful process of removing his extensive white power tatoos is just the outward sign of his inner transformation.

Scorpion TV | 2012 | 59 minutes
Eternal Harvest - imageEternal Harvest

Eternal Harvest introduces Laotians who lived through the Vietnam-era U.S. bombing campaign and those who live with bombs in their fields today. The film features local and foreign experts who explain the scope and hazards of the problem as well as how unexploded ordinance (UXO) is removed safely.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 72 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Eternity Has No Door of Escape - imageEternity Has No Door of Escape

Brings viewers to the places and institutions in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium where the history of "Outsider Art" unfolded and continues to unfold today.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 80 minutes
Ethics Thru Drama - imageEthics Thru Drama

Using drama to teach medical ethics.

The Fanlight Collection | 2004 | 54 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Everything's Fine - imageEverything's Fine

An engaging portrait of the daily routine of a self-styled 'bush doctor' in Mali.

Icarus Films | 2006 | 78 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Exit: Leaving Extremism BehindĀ  - imageExit: Leaving Extremism BehindĀ 

A former right-wing extremist explores why people join hate groups and what makes them decide to leave.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 85 minutes | College, Adults

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