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Public Health & Medicine
Public Health & Medicine
A GOOD NEIGHBOR
A Latina single mother fights against racism and climate change as she campaigns for city council in one of the nation’s most polluted zip codes
A PLACE TO BREATHE
explores the universality of trauma, resilience, and healing in immigrant communities
ABORTION: ADD TO CART
With increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way
ALWAYS IN SEASON
After 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY
The life of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs
AND SO I STAYED
The stories of incarcerated abuse survivors fighting for their lives shows how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong
ASK THE SEXPERT
A longtime sex advice columnist gains popularity against the backdrop of a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools in India
AUTISM IN LOVE
Autistic adults navigate the challenges of dating and romantic relationships
BEING MICHELLE
a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past
BEYOND MEN AND MASCULINITY
This searching, provocative exploration of masculinity raises uncomfortable questions about the shape and definition of masculinity in modern society
CAREGIVER: A Love Story
A woman’s heroic decision to take control of the end of her life creates complex, unexpected challenges for her caregiver husband
CHINATOWN
Three senior activists fight for housing rights in DC’s historic Chinatown
CLARISSA'S BATTLE
A single mother’s fight for child care for all
CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIAL BULLY
Twenty-year-old Natasha bravely reflects on her past as a middle school bully
CROW COUNTRY: OUR RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Tribal members on the Crow Reservation fight for better food and a better future for their community
CURED
Meet the LGBTQ activists who refused to accept psychiatry's mental illness label - and changed history
DEATH IS BUT A DREAM
While studying the dreams of the dying, a research team uncovers a genuinely uplifting look at death
DECADE OF FIRE
The South Bronx is burning. Stay, fight, build.
EXILED
Two military veterans, both green card immigrants willing to die for America, get deported
FOR SOMEBODY ELSE
Following three California women as they lend their bodies to carry someone else’s child
GIVE AND TAKE
An inside look at the community fridge movement in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic
GUEST HOUSE
the story of three women in a re-entry house as they battle addiction & recidivism
GUN SHOT WOUND
Gun Shot Wound takes a hard look at routine gun violence in America through the eyes of its trauma surgeons
HUNGRY TO LEARN
THE HIGHEST COST OF COLLEGE MIGHT BE YOUR HEALTH
I DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility, and the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show
IF YOU CAN EVER GET BACK
US army combat medics who served in Iraq’s “triangle of death" struggle to find their place in the civilian world and to lay to rest their wartime ghosts
ILLUSIONS OF CONTROL
A riveting meditation on resilience in the face of disaster, Illusions of Control unfolds in landscapes irrevocably shaped by human attempts to dominate them
INHABITANTS: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON RESTORING OUR WORLD
Indigenous perspectives on environmental stewardship and resilience in a changing world
INNER WOUND REAL
The stories of three BIPOC folks who self-injure, then find new ways to cope
JULIA SCOTTI: FUNNY THAT WAY
The moving, funny, and triumphant comeback story of trans comedian, Julia Scotti, “the crazy old lady of comedy”
LOVE & STUFF
Grieving her beloved mother and living amidst 63 boxes of dead parents’ stuff, one transformative “YES” turns filmmaker Judith Helfand into a 50-year-old new mother
LUPE UNDER THE SUN
A portrait of migrant farmworkers grappling with the faultlines of the American Dream
MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: TERRA INCOGNITA
Exploring the debate over stem cell research through the story of biologist Dr. Jack Kessler who seeks a cure for spinal cord injuries after his daughter’s accident
MEDICATING NORMAL
the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress
MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART
25 years after Miguel died of AIDS, his niece tracks down his estranged lover and cracks open a Pandora’s box of unresolved family drama
MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY
AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE MIGRANT DEATH CRISIS IN A SMALL TEXAS TOWN
MY SO-CALLED SELFISH LIFE
A PARADIGM-SHIFTING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ONE OF OUR GREATEST SOCIAL TABOOS: CHOOSING TO NOT BECOME A MOTHER
NO MÁS BEBÉS
Mexican-American women fighting for justice after being sterilized against their will
OF TWO MINDS
Take your best day and your darkest moment and multiply it by a million
ON THE DIVIDE
The story of three Latinx people in McAllen, Texas connected by the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border
OUT OF STATE
Native men return to Hawaii after their cultural reawakening at a private prison in the Arizona desert
PERFECT STRANGERS
One woman's journey to give away a kidney raises thorny philosophical questions about acts of compassion
PLEASE REMEMBER ME
Octogenarians Feng and Lou have been inseparable for over 40 years, but aging and illness threaten their deep bond
REBOUND
Carrying the weight of motherhood, trauma, and incarceration, two women find healing and hope through sisterhood, service, and education
SILENT BEAUTY
A lyrical and sensitive autobiographical exploration of the filmmaker’s family history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence
STRONG!- Lift Like A Girl
The strongest woman in the world: A portrait of Olympian Cheryl Haworth
STUMPED
An extraordinary journey through tragedy, comedy and restoration
TEACHER OF PATIENCE
After Emily Felter is diagnosed with Down syndrome, her father, paramedic Tom Felter, develops a presentation to share her story with other first responders.
THE CARBON RUSH
an investigation of communities impacted carbon trading around the world and the ultimate failure of global carbon markets to stop climate change
THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE
WHAT IF WOMEN’S PLEASURE WAS AS IMPORTANT AS MEN’S? EXPLORING “CLITERACY” IN THE FIGHT FOR GENDER EQUALITY.
THE DUMPSTER DIVE
Cockroach news hosts Madison Von Vermin and Howard Scourge investigate the downfall of the human race vis-à-vis microplastics
THE GREY AREA
Exploring the damaging consequences masculine women face for rejecting society’s expectations
THE ONLY DOCTOR
In one of Georgia’s poorest and unhealthiest counties, Dr. Karen Kinsell struggles to keep her rural clinic open to provide the only local healthcare available for forty miles.
THE S WORD
A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors
THE SCRIPT - QUEER FUTURES
THE SCRIPT playfully explores the relationship between trans and nonbinary communities and medical providers.
TIME FOR ILHAN
One woman’s quest to become the first Somali Muslim lawmaker in the United States
TOMORROW'S POWER
Communities in Gaza, Colombia and Germany rise to meet to the environmental and economic crises they face
UNADOPTED
22-year-old Noel Anaya investigates why the foster care system never found him a “forever family”
US KIDS
Determined to turn tragedy into action, survivors of a school shooting catalyze an unprecedented youth movement that spreads like wildfire across the world
WARRIOR WOMEN
Mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement
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