Health Documentary Movies

An audiovisual representation of the degenerative dementia process based on real reports from people affected with this condition.

When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. What emerges is a portrait of her extended LGBTQ...

Anna Richardson investigates the latest generation of weight-loss drugs that have been all over the media and social media. Anna talks to doctors and...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

The Cancer Documentary addresses the worldwide cancer epidemic head-on, exploring an aspect of cancer that is often overlooked, its connection with...

What's the point of music? You might be tempted to answer that it's an enjoyable pastime or an art form, but nothing really essential. For the first...

Scientists are coming to understand fat as a dynamic organ—one whose size may have more to do with biological processes than personal choices....

On Easter Sunday 2012 the UK's Channel 4 showed a programme entitled Crucifixion in which Gunther von Hagens created his interpretation of the...

PlantWise follows the inspiring stories of six people, each struggling with debilitating health conditions. They learn that the standard American...

Hiding in the Walls unwinds the fraught history of lead poisoning in Baltimore and follows the adult survivors who are on a mission to reclaim the...