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- Best about psychological health: “Happy” “Happy” (2011) by Roko Belic is a documentary film that explores the concept of happiness through interviews with people from all types of backgrounds and all over the world.
- Best about fitness and transformation: “From Fat to Finish Line” In this documentary from 2015, follow the journeys of twelve people who were obese as they train to run a 200-mile relay race.
- Best about nutrition: “In Defense of Food” Michael Pollan is the author of several influential food-related books, including “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food.”
- Best about parenting: “Lorenzo’s Oil” Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte play distraught and frustrated parents in this 1992 movie about a child who suddenly has neurological problems like loss of hearing and behavior issues.
- And The Band Played on
- Hero with A Thousand Faces
- The Final Inch
- Between Life and Death
- Race Against The Killer Flu
- Fire in The Blood
- Ancient Enemy
- How to Slay A Dragon
- Poder
- The Mask You Live in
And the Band Played on was a pivotal HBO Docudrama based on the nonfiction best seller with the title And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, written in 1987. The film was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The film opens in 1976, where we follow epidemiologist Don Francis to a village in Zaireon the Banks of t...
The Public Health documentary Hero with a Thousand Faces provides a complex look at the Ebola Public Health crisisand the thousands of people who risked everything to fight against it. The film engages a mix of different famous people and experts on the topic of one of the biggest Public Health issues of our time. The focus though is not necessaril...
The Final Inch is a Public Health short-form documentary that focuses on the public health workers at the front of the fight to eradicate polio primarily in Pakistan and India. The film was directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky and shot on location in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The efforts to combat this disease were successful in India, though t...
Between Life or Death is an eye-opening Public Health documentary that follows doctors who have the ability to interrupt and in some cases reverse death. It is filmed in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the best brain injury clinic in the country. The narrative of the film is driven by the story of a man who communicates only by ...
Race Against the Killer Flu is a public health documentary that follows the world’s leading scientists and virus hunters on the journey to make sense of the latest threatening virus and stop it in its tracks. The film asks us to comprehend a flu that kills 70 percent of those it infects and has the possibility of being as contagious as a winter com...
The harrowing documentary Fire In the Blood exposes the Western pharmaceutical industry and its relationship with the government, and how together they blocked low-cost access to drugs forHIV and AIDS in Africa and countries in the global southafter 1996. The effect of this effort was the death of at least ten million people unnecessarily. The stor...
Did you know that Leprosy in India still exists? The critical public health film Ancient Enemy teaches audiences that despite being “eliminated” officially in 2005 Leprosy is still alive and well in India. Public Health hero Rajni Kant Singh is a character we get to know in this documentary, and he helps us explore the ways Leprosy has been shuttle...
The film How to Slay a Dragon is a documentary that goes into detail about the illness Dracunculiasis, which is also known as Guinea Worm.This Public Health film shows us that change is possible, as we walk through the history of this particular illness. In 1986 there were over 3.5 million cases reported, and as of 2013 the Carter Center reported o...
The Public Health documentary Poder was directed and edited by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa Russell. The narrative of the film revolves around Elba and Emlin, two Mayan indigenous girls from Guatemala who were instrumental in Rise Up, an all-girl led advocacy group. This group fought a long and hard battle for their rights in the service of tr...
The documentary The Mask You Live in looks at the construction of masculinity as a toxic Public Health issue.Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom unpacks our culturally narrow definition of masculinity and how its actually harming boys and men, while examining what we can do about it. The film won the Jury Prize at the Las Vegas International Film Festi...
Dec 6, 2019 · STREAM NOW. A widely controversial documentary, Take Your Pills explores the American stimulant industry in which children and adults are prescribed and issued medications like Adderall and ...
May 15, 2022 · Broken down using distinct imagery, the subtext of Pixar’s film focuses on the importance of sadness for a healthy state of mental health, with the benefit of her character, played by Phyllis Smith, becoming more and more apparent as the film goes on. It all stems from one inciting incident toward the start of the film when Riley is standing ...
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- Silver Linings Playbook (2012) David O. Russell made this Pennsylvania-set masterpiece about two healing hot messes who fall for each other as something of a gift for his son, who has bipolar disorder and OCD.
- Ordinary People (1980) A turning point for the portrayal of psychotherapy in film, Robert Redford‘s drama about an affluent Chicago family reeling from the accidental death of their son tackles tough topics like PTSD and survivor’s guilt.
- Melancholia (2011) The internal black cloud that is depression doesn’t exactly lend itself naturally to the cinematic. Certainly some films have succeeded in depicting depression on the big screen (see: horror knockout The Babadook for a recent one), but none so purely and spectacularly as Lars von Trier‘s sci-fi drama about two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg), one of whom is about to get married, while a rogue planet named Melancholia is about to collide with Earth, sealing our inevitable doom.
- Inside Out (2015) Way-y-y more kid-friendly than Melancholia but not one bit less masterful and exquisite, Disney/Pixar’s candy-colored work about the emotions inside a teenage girl’s head might be the studio’s most relentless tearjerker to date.
A worldwide catalyst to tell more health stories. In an extraordinary demonstration of creative energy and enthusiasm for telling public health stories, each edition since 2020 has attracted an average of 1150 short film submissions yearly - both amateur and professional - from 110 countries. In addition to the three main categories of the ...
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Mar 26, 2021 · Former Film Society of the Year winners the Leigh Film Society, a group of volunteers in Greater Manchester whose passion for cinema is allied to their grass-roots activism and support for various vulnerable groups within the local area, sprang into action with its ‘Orange Bags of Cinema Sunshine’ initiative, delivering DVDs to individuals and families, especially from minority groups, at ...
