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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:

A Tail of Identity - imageA Tail of Identity

An honest, humorous film about three "furries": people who feel, deep-down inside, that being human actually constrains who they are, and they prefer dressing up as animal characters.

MediaStorm | 2009 | 9 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
A Thousand More - imageA Thousand More

A family is determined to give their disabled son a whole and vital life. In the midst of a great burden, one small child — with a seemingly endless supply of love — is the blessing that holds a family together.

MediaStorm | 2011 | 13 minutes | 4-12, college, adults
A Thousand Tomorrows: Intimacy, Sexuality and Alzheimer's - imageA Thousand Tomorrows: Intimacy, Sexuality and Alzheimer's

An exploration of the changes that Alzheimer's disease has on intimacy and sexuality.

Terra Nova Films | 1995 | 31 minutes
A Way to B - imageA Way to B

Gorgeous images of dances, stunning while thought provoking: the dancers are handicapped.

First Hand Films | 2023 | 98 minutes | College, Adults
A Will for the Woods - imageA Will for the Woods

Clark Wang's passionate wish for a legacy of green burials inspires a profoundly affecting and optimistic portrait of people finding meaning in death.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 61 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Able to Laugh - imageAble to Laugh

Enter the world of disability as interpreted by six professional comics, who happen to be disabled.

The Fanlight Collection | 1993 | 27 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Abortion Helpline - imageAbortion Helpline

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes
Acting Blind - imageActing Blind

Takes audiences behind the scenes as a company of non-professional actors rehearse a play about life without sight. The performers have no problem imagining themselves in these roles: they are blind themselves.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 52 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Addicted to Plastic - imageAddicted to Plastic

Reveals the history and worldwide scope of plastics pollution, investigates its toxicity and explores solutions.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 85 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Addiction Incorporated - imageAddiction Incorporated

The true story of the tobacco companies' commitment to addicting the human brain and how the world came to know about it.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 76 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult

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