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Jan 9, 2019 · Stanford Medicine film buffs recommend documentaries, feature films and short videos that offer compelling looks at the medical world.
Medical docuseries focusing on patients with unique illnesses and their journeys to find a diagnosis and cure.
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Dec 6, 2019 · Netflix documentaries like 'What the Health' and 'Icarus' are fascinating, emotional explorations of personal stories and health issues facing the world today.
- 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...
- The Waiting Room. The Waiting Room is a five-part ongoing project that tells the story of the day-to-day struggles of a safety net hospital in Oakland, California.
- Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare. This 2012 release was an official Sundance selection that year and debuted on CNN in early 2013.
- Sicko. King of the controversial documentary, Michael Moore, took on the American healthcare system in 2007 with this Cannes selection. The film, which like most of Moore's work makes no bones about being political, grossed almost $25 million and makes a case for universal healthcare.
- Money-Driven Medicine. This 2009 documentary from the trenches of the healthcare debate—pre-ACA—takes a close look at the economics on which the industry ran prior to the legislation.
Apr 22, 2015 · Leading cardiologists Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Herschel Sklaroff, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Cardiology at Mount Sinai Heart were filmed for one-month...
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- Mount Sinai Health System
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Getting Better is a short documentary that explores three remarkable stories of medical progress: Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Surgery. The film looks at the role of ...
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- NEJM Group
