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.
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.
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.
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.
Public Health is so much more than just washing your hands, adhering to smoking laws, or wearing your seatbelt -- although it is those things too. Broadly, public health is an approach to preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health for everyone. So over the course of this series, we'll show you the many ways the story of your health isn’t just about you, and how it’s about so much other stuff like the social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact all of us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From vaccines to antibiotics, clean water to nutrition, bio-terror threats to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the six-part series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge tells the compelling stories of global health challenges and successes. Employing both historical dramatic sequences and poignant current documentary stories, the series showcases key milestones in public health history, such as the eradication of smallpox, alongside modern and future challenges, including SARS, a potential global flu pandemic and recovery from the Asian tsunami catastrophe.
n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.
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.
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.
You Don't Know Nicotine is a documentary that sheds light on the misleading information surrounding nicotine and its potential benefits. It delves into the fear and controversy surrounding tobacco and vaping, highlighting the harm reduction potential of nicotine and its potential role in Alzheimer's disease research. The film takes viewers on a journey through the complex world of nicotine, exposing corruption within the public health sector and advocating for a more balanced understanding of this widely misunderstood substance.
Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.
In an era of throw-away ease, convenience has cost us our well-being. Plastics have been found inside our bodies— in our colons, our brains, and even in mothers’ developing wombs. Scientists around the country are sounding the alarm, but without public buy-in, there is little that can be done. How much evidence do we need before we decide to take action?