Health Movies

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

What lies beyond the art of giving and receiving? Ellie, a liberal Democrat and kind-hearted masseuse, decides she wants to share the gift of life...

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during...

This documentary film asks whether a citizens' experiment, the CSA (Community-supported Agriculture), developing new partnership models between...

Jordi, a father who fights with all his might to save his son, Dodi, who is suffering from a rare health condition where the doctor has given him...

Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to...

Kale Brock visits communities with improved life expectancies, low rates of disease and an extremely high quality of life well into the later years,...

A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.

A bloodstain on a sheet triggers a great transformation in Tina, an eleven-year-old girl. As she spreads out the laundry with her mother, she will...

Obesity rates in the United States have reached epidemic proportions in recent years. Killer at Large shows how little is being done and more...

James Lu teaches a qigong breathing method.

With the world increase in spillover diseases from animals Scientists trace outbreaks such as the Zika and Ebola viruses which have the potential to...

A mute nurse cares deeply for the dying woman she lives with, but after a miscommunication with her client, she's forced to decide if she should...

Canadian seniors over 65 are staying active through philanthropy, the arts, volunteerism, education, entrepreneurship, or the workplace. Profiled...

A film record of M.E.T.E.I. (Medical Expedition to Easter Island), one of the most unusual scientific enquiries ever launched, headed by a McGill...

Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Tomb (2022) In 1922, the tomb of Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun was unearthed. Now the extraordinary scientific...

A documentary about the HIV/AIDS controversy, denying the connection between the former and the latter.

Director Dominique Leclerc spent years depending on medical devices for her survival. Then, looking for alternative solutions, she entered the world...