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.
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.
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.
Voices from the Shadows is a documentary that explores the experiences of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). It delves into the challenges they face, including the lack of recognition, medical misdiagnosis, and the impact on their daily lives. The film aims to shed light on their stories and raise awareness about these debilitating conditions.
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.
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is a documentary that delves into various aspects of society, including socioeconomics, politics, and technology. It examines the current state of the world and presents a vision for a better future. The film explores topics such as poverty, consumerism, resource management, and the impact of technology on society.
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.
The Devil We Know (2018) is a documentary that exposes the dark secrets of a major chemical company. It unravels the story of how a small town in West Virginia became a toxic wasteland due to water pollution caused by the company. Through interviews, deposition footage, and archive material, the film reveals the devastating effects of chemical exposure on the community's health. A class-action lawsuit and a battle for justice against corporate greed ensue.
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 an apocalyptic Buenos Aires, a television reporter becomes trapped in a stadium during a bubonic plague outbreak. As chaos ensues, she must confront her own despair and rage, while dealing with isolation, claustrophobia, and the morality of survival.
In the 1950s, a devastating fog descended on London and enveloped the capital for several days, leaving Londoners lost in their own streets in one of the UK's biggest peacetime catastrophes.
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.
Hospital is a documentary film that takes an in-depth look at the operations and challenges of a hospital in New York City. It explores the medical issues faced by the patients and the dedicated staff working tirelessly to provide healthcare. The film provides a raw and insightful perspective on the healthcare system.
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.
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.