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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:

Guest House - imageGuest House

The story of three women in a re-entry house as they battle addiction and recidivism.

GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 75 minutes
HSA Hospital Strike '75 - imageHSA Hospital Strike '75

A document of the eighteen-day strike by interns and residents at Chicago's only public hospital.

Kartemquin Films | 1975 | 20 minutes
Hayley, Rosamaria, Angela and Martens - imageHayley, Rosamaria, Angela and Martens

Revisits four children in England, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and Latvia, who were born in 1992, the year of the first Rio Earth Summit, and measures the impact of globalization on their lives.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 48 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
He Wouldn't Turn Me Loose - imageHe Wouldn't Turn Me Loose

Presents the real-life case of 96-year-old Miss Mary, who is sexually assaulted by her grandson - and documents how she fully participated in his subsequent trial and prosecution.

Terra Nova Films | 2012 | 28 minutes
Health for Sale - imageHealth for Sale

Access to essential pharmaceutical drugs in developing countries is critical. Why is it that 15 million people die from easily curable diseases in the Southern hemisphere every year? The film links together the First and Third World in a long trip inside the Pharma maze.

First Hand Films | 2007 | 52 minutes | College, Adults
Heart of the Congo - imageHeart of the Congo

Documents the work done, and difficulties faced, by international aid workers in the Congo.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Heather Booth: Changing the World - imageHeather Booth: Changing the World

Renowned organizer and activist Heather Booth began her remarkable career at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Through her life and work, this inspiring film explores many of the pivotal moments in progressive movements that altered our history over the last fifty years.

Women Make Movies | 2016 | 62 minutes | College, Adults
Helen Nearing - imageHelen Nearing

A moving portrait of the lives and deaths of homesteading authors, Helen and Scott Nearing.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 56 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
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

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