Health

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Vegucated
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Vegucated

Many people have thought about vegan, but a small percentage of people follow through. Why? The reason is that it’s hard. It’s not just cutting out meat. There is a lot more to pay attention to. In the documentary...
Forks Over Knives
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Forks Over Knives

Forks over Knives is a film about nutrition featuring Dr. Caldwell Esseltyn and T. Colin Campbell, a primary researcher on the famed 1980s nutritional China-Cornell-Oxford Project. The documentary centres on the findings of t...
Fast Food, Fat Profits: Obesity in America
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Fast Food, Fat Profits: Obesity in America

With two-thirds of Americans currently overweight, Fast Food, Fat Profits: Obesity in America addresses the growing rate of obesity and the multitudinous number of health conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, that ha...
The Lazarus Effect
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The Lazarus Effect

The Lazarus Effect documents the successful treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in Africa. Directed by Lance Bangs and produced by Spike Jonze, the film focuses on the positive effect of free antiretroviral drug therapy in Africa....
America’s Medicated Kids
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America’s Medicated Kids

America’s Medicated Kids follows Louis Theroux as he visits one of America’s leading psychiatric centres in Pennsylvania. Having to cope with the challenging behaviour of their children, many parents are turning t...
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
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Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Following Joe Cross for sixty days as an overweight man looking for a way to be happy in life, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is a touching story of a man who wants others to realise that there is always time for a change. He batt...
Fat Head
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Fat Head

In Fat Head, comedian Tom Naughton examines and attempts to refute Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Super Size Me, critically examining the science and information put forward in that film. Having watched it as part of his...
Food, Inc.
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Food, Inc.

Food, Inc. unveils some of the sombre practices underpinning the American food industry, exploring how corporations place profits before consumer health, worker safety and the environment. This documentary argues that industr...
Under the Knife
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Under the Knife

Louis Theroux explores the world of plastic surgery by traveling to Los Angeles and even experiencing a procedure first-hand. Plastic surgery has become exceedingly popular over the years and many individuals are making appoi...
The Real Sleeping Beauty
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The Real Sleeping Beauty

The Real Sleeping Beauty tells the miraculous story of recovery by Sarah Scantlin, who woke up and started to speak in 2005 after being in a coma that had lasted 20 years. By being the first person to ever speak again after b...
Sicko
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Sicko

Sicko is a documentary by filmmaker Michael Moore that takes an in depth look at how the state of healthcare in the United States is harming its citizens. A combination of personal interviews, discussions with healthcare work...
Super Size Me
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Super Size Me

Documentary director Morgan Spurlock features as the guinea pig in this film about the fast food industry. Inspired by America’s obesity epidemic, he goes on a diet of McDonald’s three times a day for thirty days straight in...