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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:

Forever - imageForever

A poignant tour of the importance of art in the lives of visitors to the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world.

Icarus Films | 2006 | 95 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Forget Me Not - imageForget Me Not

Filmmaker David Sieveking portrays the domestic care of his mother Gretel, who, like millions of others, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

KimStim | 2012 | 88 minutes
Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate (Part 1) - imageForgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate (Part 1)

Acclaimed filmmaker Helen Whitney addresses the act of forgiveness, which is a theological principle central to all major religions (part I of two parts).

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 84 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate (Part 2) - imageForgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate (Part 2)

Acclaimed filmmaker Helen Whitney addresses the act of forgiveness, which is a theological principle central to all major religions (part II of two parts).

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 85 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Four Films on Grief and Bereavement - imageFour Films on Grief and Bereavement
'This four-part series profiles individuals who are struggling to deal with the often unexpected death of a loved one: a child, a parent, a spouse, or a sibling. Their thoughtful, courageous responses focus on dealing with the immediate impact of loss'
The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 82 minutes
Four Lives - imageFour Lives

Four people with bipolar disorder, along with their families and psychiatrists, share their struggles to achieve control over the illness and their lives.

The Fanlight Collection | 1987 | 56 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Frankensteer - imageFrankensteer

Investigates the dangers to human health, including BSE (Mad Cow disease), posed by feedlot-raised beef.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 45 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Friends for Life - imageFriends for Life

At 76, Warren DeWitt was single and living alone. 90-year-old Arden Peters was caring for his Alzheimer-stricken wife. In "Friends for Life", an unlikely commitment between these two gentlemen eases the burden of old age for both of them.

MediaStorm | 2005 | 9 minutes | 4-12, college, adults
From Chechnya to Chernobyl - imageFrom Chechnya to Chernobyl

Fleeing the war in Chechnya, refugees have settled near Chernobyl.

Bullfrog Films | 1998 | 45 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
From Danger to Dignity - imageFrom Danger to Dignity

Weaves together two parallel stories about the national movement to decriminalize abortion.

Bullfrog Films | 1995 | 56 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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