Health Movies

World class triathlete Sami Inkinen & Dr Steve Phinney challenge the efficacy & safety of "carb loading" for sports performance.

Why are so many people wheat-intolerant or sensitive to wheat? And why is wheat linked to so many modern-day health problems, when it has been a...

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and...

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be...

THE FOOD CURE presents an intimate portrait of six cancer patients who make the radical decision to turn their backs on conventional medicine and put...

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

FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19. The Healthcare Divide examines how pressure to...

Industrial food production has provided the public with an abundance of food at very low prices. But with obesity and diabetes at record levels in...

Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily...

A fight to get through the gridlock becomes a fight for survival for Amanda as her body comes to a standstill.

"Whenever You Eat" (1949) is an educational film produced by the National Dairy Council and Atlas Film Corp, emphasizing the importance of physical...

Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adoptions to agricultural subsidies, Poverty, Inc....

NOVA takes you inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating...

Chunyi Lin teaches introduces viewers to his Spring Forest Qigong system, with a focus on practices for health and wellness.

Behind the scenes of news coverage during the pandemic. Follow the work of the professional press in a fight against denialism.

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,...

Three people try to start a pilot program to document the health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Marion is an artist with FSH, an incurable muscular myopathy. She guides us on the path she has taken to no longer identify with her illness.

The use of antibiotics has made more and more bacteria resistant to the medicine. Dr Michael Mosley goes in search of the cause and new solutions to...

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.