Movies and TvShows featuring "public-health" theme.
New Amsterdam follows Dr. Max Goodwin, the newest medical director of the Bellevue Hospital, who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care for the underserved patients of New York City. With his unorthodox methods and contagious enthusiasm, Dr. Goodwin will stop at nothing to break the rules and ensure that the patients come first.
The Strain is a TV show about a deadly virus outbreak in New York City, which turns people into vampires. A team of scientists and vampire hunters must fight to stop the epidemic and save humanity.
Medical Investigation is a TV show that follows a team of medical professionals as they tackle mysterious diseases and work to find a cure. They face challenges such as public health emergencies, viral outbreaks, and the need for constant teamwork and investigation. The team is led by a former soldier and includes a brilliant scientist. Together, they must navigate complex laboratory work, media relations, and the pressure to save lives in the face of dangerous epidemics and infections.
A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses racing.
Join visionary philanthropist Bill Gates as he delves into pressing global issues and uncovers cutting-edge technologies that will transform the world.
Unrest is a powerful documentary that explores the lives of individuals living with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME/CFS. Through intimate interviews, personal stories, and medical research, the film sheds light on the challenges faced by those with this debilitating illness.
A documentary that delves into the medical mystery surrounding chronic fatigue syndrome, with a focus on the experiences of patients and the search for a cure. It highlights the struggles and challenges faced by those suffering from the disease and sheds light on the medical research and treatments available.
DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors, treatments, and disability in real life. It dives deep into the weird, wild archives of medical imaging, public health messaging, and pop-culture outbreak narratives to understand how ideas have moved between science, science fiction, and political ideology over the past century. (Yes, this is a film that covers both antibiotic resistance and the persistence of zombie apocalypse films.) Ultimately, DIS-EASE is a provocation to re-think how we define both the "public" and "health" in public health - who is included, what counts as care, and what it means to be sick or well in a world perpetually on the brink of collapse.
Miss Evers' Boys is a movie set during World War II that tells the story of Miss Eunice Evers, a black nurse who becomes a part of a controversial medical experiment. The experiment involves treating black soldiers with syphilis but withholding the necessary treatment in order to study the disease. As the years go by, Miss Evers struggles with her role in the experiment and the moral implications of her actions.
In the early 1980s, AIDS emerged and quickly became an epidemic. Those responsible for public safety failed. People were kept in the dark, afraid to speak out. Ignorance, arrogance, politics and economics all lead to betrayal, to cover-up, to scandal. Unspeakable is told from the perspective of two families caught in a tragedy that gripped a nation, as well as the doctors, nurses, corporations and bureaucracy responsible.
When a deadly plague breaks out in New Orleans, a doctor and a police captain must race against time to track down the carrier before the disease spreads. With the help of a reporter and a nurse, they navigate a web of crime, corruption, and personal dramas to save the city.
One of America's best-known and most respected doctors offers a sensible approach to eating: He emphasizes enjoyment over deprivation, and long-term health benefits over short-term weight loss. Dr. Weil assures us that there is no confusion among nutrition experts about the optimal diet for health, body weight, and longevity. Understanding inflammation to be the root cause of many chronic illnesses, he gives science-based recommendations to help combat specific health concerns, all as part of an anti-inflammatory diet. On the subject of dietary supplements, he talks about what's perilous and what can help.
Letter Beyond the Walls is a documentary that explores the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Brazil and the activism of the LGBT community in response. It delves into the challenges faced by the LGBT individuals during this crisis and the efforts made to combat stigma, promote awareness, and ensure access to medication.
Made by Sid Davis, a prolific director of social guidance films, this anti-smoking film takes a blunt, no-nonsense approach to smoking cessation, arguing against the deceit of the tobacco industry with staged reenactments, stark narration, and bold title cards promising smokers a shorter life expectancy due to lung cancer.
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.
This four-part documentary series, reveals a little-known truth: that public health saved your life today and you probably don’t even know it. But while public health makes modern life possible, the work itself is often underfunded, undervalued, and misunderstood.
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).
Fed Up (2014) is a powerful documentary that delves into the food industry's manipulative tactics, the prevalence of processed foods, and the alarming rise of obesity. Through interviews with experts, the film reveals how corporate greed, political lobbying, and misleading marketing have contributed to the public health crisis. It also provides a call to action for individuals to take control of their own nutrition and make informed choices for a healthier future.