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Showing 1 - 10 of 49 titles with a criteria of Subject is Medical Sociology


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

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes

Almost Home

Almost Home is a stunningly intimate feature-length, cinema verité film that follows the stories of residents, families and workers in a Midwestern nursing home as they struggle with the personal challenges of aging while trying to transform their century-old hospital-like institution into a true home.

371 Productions | 2005 | 84 minutes

Ama

The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes

Another Spring

ANOTHER SPRING is a medical thriller that takes place in the spring of 1972, when the deadly smallpox virus was brought into Yugoslavia from the bazaars in Iraq.

Collective Eye Films | 2023 | 90 minutes

Before Flying Back to the Earth

Building on the long earned trust of the children towards the camera, filmmaker Arunas Matelis skilfully applies a simple but highly effective narrative and thus manages to create an extraordinary film that avoids sentimentality but stays deeply moving.

First Hand Films | 2005 | 52 minutes

Belly of the Beast

Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, this Emmy-winning documentary exposes a pattern of illegal sterilizations, modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 81 minutes

Birth on the Border

Seeking a safer future for their children, two women from Ciudad Juárez, risk harassment at the hands of Border Patrol to cross the US-Mexico border legally to give birth in El Paso, Texas.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 28 minutes

Brain Storm

Against all odds, recently-divorced Eilon Reich decides to continue rehabilitation on his own after a car accident leaves him with a serious head injury.

First Hand Films | 2008 | 56 minutes

The Burden

In Bangui, Rodrigue and Reine are a couple very involved in the activities of their church. But they live with a terrible secret: they are sick with AIDS and carry it like a divine punishment. When Rodrigue is offered the position of assistant pastor, he has doubts: is he worthy of leading the church of Christ? Yet how can he refuse when he depends on Reine's trade? With the pandemic, ARV drugs are becoming scarce and the rumour is spreading that HIV-positive people will die if they vaccinate against Covid19. Reine believes a miracle is possible and sets out on a quest for a miraculous cure. She takes her husband from church to pilgrimage, from prayers of repentance to spiritual fasts, in the hope of divine healing.

Andana Films | 2023 | 80 minutes

Death Is But A Dream

While studying the dreams of the dying, a research team uncovers a genuinely uplifting look at death.

GOOD DOCS | 2021 | 81 minutes