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Publisher
University of British Columbia
Language
English
Description
"Our project gathered local knowledge through individual and group discussions, as well as through photographs. We were focused on learning about how living in rural and remote places in Northern BC can impact people's health and access to healthcare....We decided to use photovoice, a photography-based research method, because we wanted to include a visual way of knowing and experiencing the world...This book is our attempt to share what we've learned....
2) Hoarders
Publisher
A&E
Language
English
Description
HOARDERS profiles adults who suffer from extreme hoarding, a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to collect things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.
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English
Description
This is the story of a woman who thought she had it all until she lost her beloved mother to cancer. Trying to process and understand her profound grief, Suzanne embarked on a journey and turned to a deeper practice of yoga. Along the way, she discovers what yoga is. Suzanne's journey led her to India, where she studied various disciplines of yoga and met with respected gurus. During her visit, she came face-to-face with a near death experience and...
4) Milk?
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Language
English
Description
Milk is a basic food in our diet, a food so fundamental that its value for our health often goes unquestioned. Using engaging storytelling through endearing characters and beautiful visuals, this documentary aims to investigate the case for milk as a nutritious food. Is milk good for us or not?
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English
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An investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In the richest, most technically advanced, most health-obsessed society ever, all is not well. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic illnesses were on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure....
7) Obsessed
Publisher
A&E®
Language
English
Description
Obsessed examines the anxiety of individuals suffering from extreme obsessive-compulsive disorders, capturing their radically affected home lives, the incredible emotion of therapy, and their courageous attempts to defeat their debilitating conditions.
Publisher
Vital Pictures
Language
English
Description
What will it mean for all of us to grow up, live and age in a society where half the citizens are over the age of 50? That reality is closer than most of us are willing to imagine.. Never in human history have so many lived for so long - and not just in the United States. It is a global phenomenon, ushering a spectacular social transformation. COMING OF AGE IN AGING AMERICA tells the story of its dimensions, challenges and opportunities.
9) Food Matters
Publisher
Food Matters International PTY LTD
Language
English
Description
This documentary is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures, we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient-sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation.. Join the world's leading authorities on nutrition and natural healing...
10) Special Blood
Publisher
Random Media
Language
English
Description
A poignant, no-holds-barred documentary chronicling the lives of four patients with a dramatic, rare disease. Due to the rarity of their condition, Ava, Noah, Kelsie, and Lora face mis-diagnosis, improper treatment, and preventable tragedy in the emergency room all as they fight to live normal lives. Struggling to be heard by an ignorant healthcare system, they join their voices together to conquer adversity and create change.. SPECIAL BLOOD explores...
11) Inside Her Sex
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Language
English
Description
While we live in a highly sexualized society, the messaging around female sexuality is distorted and rife with shame. What women should look like, who women should want, what women should desire...in fact, who women should be, is dictated to us from screens and pages and people.. INSIDE HER SEX is a thought-provoking, feature-length documentary that explores female sexuality and shame through the eyes and experiences of three women from different...
12) RAMPED UP
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
The Americans with Disabilities Act - signed into law in 1990 - was referred to as the Emancipation Proclamation for Americans with disabilities. But because the government mostly lacks the power to ensure the law is followed, people with disabilities bear the primary burden of its enforcement through lawsuits. Defendants of these lawsuits say that the law is far too technical for business owners to keep up with, which leads to abuse. RAMPED UP addresses...
13) E-Motion
Publisher
Play TV
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world where the trapped emotions, fears, anxieties and unprocessed life experiences we hold in our bodies are the source of everything that ails us. That's the world we live in. Now, imagine a world where everyone is manifesting from their heart the perfect creation that's inside each of us. Imagine a world where abundance, inner peace, longevity and loving relationships abound.. Imagine emotion experts from around the world sharing their...
14) Blind Faith
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the stirring personal journey, both intimate and universal, of a man coming to terms with his disability and struggling with the roles of father, husband, and successful entrepreneur, breaking through the myths of blindness and broadening our understanding of the complex hidden realities facing the blind community.. Official Selection at the NYC Independent Film Festival. "I was especially moved by all the emotional themes...
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Description
This beautiful documentary tells the inspiring story of how love and art can transform tragedy into the brightest affirmation of life.. Director Richard Kane follows Jon Imber as he remains determined to continue his work as an artist despite the debilitating effects of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). Thanks to the support of his partner, Jill Hoy, Imber learns to paint with his left hand, and then with both of his hands as his condition...
16) A Cerebral Game
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
Baseball was so much more than a game for Reid Davenport when he was growing up. It was about belonging and being a teammate, despite having cerebral palsy. While Reid didn't play, he relished talking about his beloved New York Yankees with his teammates, eating sunflower seeds and yelling advice to players. This was the closest Reid would ever come to playing the game he loved.. However, as Reid entered his teenage years, he started to feel increasingly...
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English
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In this book, urologist Piet Hoebeke clarifies the mysteries of the male reproductive organ. Accessibly and humoristically written, Hoebeke explains the penis: Why do we have one? What does it do? How do I keep it fit and healthy? And of course: what to do when your foreskin gets stuck between the zipper of your pants?
Publisher
Java Films Exclusives
Language
English
Description
When she was only 18, Emma began filming her own struggle with anorexia all the way to her death. She knew the film would end in one of two ways: either about recovery from a low point, or about the devastating realities of anorexia as she knew she would die. It became the latter.. Interlaced with personal vlogs by Emma, the film invites her parents, friends, doctors, and therapists to reflect on Emma's life and death. Both a heartbreaking and inspirational...
19) All of Us
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
A young doctor in the South Bronx embarks on a project to find out why African-American women are becoming infected with HIV at alarming rates. She finds a dangerous power imbalance that all heterosexual women face in the bedroom, but rarely discuss. Selected as Showtime's 2008 World AIDS Day Film.. "This powerful, conceptually sure film is a model of documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking... a striking feminist inquiry." - The New...
20) Care
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
This intimate documentary pulls back the curtain on the poignant and largely hidden world of in-home eldercare. Beautifully shot and deeply moving, the film reveals the bonds that form between paid care workers and elders - and exposes the cracks in a system that is currently failing both.. Official Selection at Sheffield Doc/Fest and DOC NYC.. "Superb. A powerful tale of dedication through the eyes of workers and clients." - The Huffington Post....
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