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Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a woman who thought she had it all until she lost her beloved mother to cancer. Trying to process and understand her profound grief, Suzanne embarked on a journey and turned to a deeper practice of yoga. Along the way, she discovers what yoga is. Suzanne's journey led her to India, where she studied various disciplines of yoga and met with respected gurus. During her visit, she came face-to-face with a near death experience and...
Publisher
Be Here Now Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival, BE HERE NOW (THE ANDY WHITFIELD STORY) is a love story that follows actor Andy Whitfield, of Spartacus television fame, and his wife, Vashti, as they take on the most heroic role he's ever had to play: fighting a deadly disease. With matching 'Be Here Now' tattoos on their arms, they vow to go on a quest to heal Andy from a cancer diagnosis by embracing life rather...
Publisher
Footpath Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
With an introduction by Academy-Award winning actor, Chris Cooper, this feature-length documentary is about three children living with significant communication and physical disabilities struggling against the public schools in an emotional battle to prove their worth.. Over the course of two and a half years, CERTAIN PROOF follows the lives of Kayla, Josh and Colin, three children with cerebral palsy. Despite multiple disabilities, they fight to...
Publisher
Normal Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A decade after the award-winning film about autism, Normal People Scare Me, Taylor Cross is at it again in this sequel documentary wherein he interviews former and new cast members and family about attitudes and first-person perspectives/experiences in autism today.. In the NORMAL PEOPLE SCARE ME TOO, Taylor asks such questions as “What’s hard for you?” “What are you really good at?” “What do you want educators, parents and others to know...
Publisher
Rob Tinworth
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Big Data is being used to analyze and determine healthcare options and billions of people are affected. But what, and who, is lost in the number crunching? THE LIFE EQUATION introduces us to Jose, a new kind of health worker. When he meets Crecencia Buch, a mother of seven with cervical cancer, he faces a daunting question. The price for her treatment is {dollar}10,000 and, at best, it will buy only a few years of life. That money could fund thousands...
8) Obsessed
Publisher
A&E®
Language
English
Description
Obsessed examines the anxiety of individuals suffering from extreme obsessive-compulsive disorders, capturing their radically affected home lives, the incredible emotion of therapy, and their courageous attempts to defeat their debilitating conditions.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Walking 6000 miles, Marine Veteran Jonathan Hancock confronts unprocessed trauma from war. Jon’s insight and humor gives a uniquely positive approach to the post-war topic. A hopeful story of resilience meant to inspire all audiences.
10) The Listeners
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Lawrence, Kansas, 11 young volunteers undergo some of the nation’s most rigorous training to become volunteer counselors in a suicide hotline call center at Headquarters, a crisis center since the early 70’s, and legendary for its level of commitment through volunteer counseling. Learning how to listen with empathy and without judging proves harder and more taxing than the volunteers imagined, and mastering the skills necessary to save lives...
11) Free the Mind
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice. The results of Davidson's studies at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in FREE THE MIND as they...
12) Root Cause
Publisher
Play TV
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ROOT CAUSE is a feature length documentary based on one man’s extraordinary true story – a 10 year long journey to find the ROOT CAUSE of his panic attacks, anxiety, chronic fatigue, nausea, dizziness, agitation and insomnia. Interviews with expert health professionals from all over the world, provides incredible insight into how an infected root canal can affect other health functions of the body. Featuring leaders in their fields like Dr. Mercola,...
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
According to the World Health Organization, anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental illnesses on the globe at the moment. Is this a disease of modernity? Or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves? THE AGE OF ANXIETY examines what anxiety is, and how and why it is being re-defined by medical and pharmaceutical industries.
Publisher
Film Art Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THE SHOW MUST GO ON follows former Home and Away actor and filmmaker Ben Steel on a soul-searching investigation into why are there so many entertainment workers developing and struggling with anxiety, depression and substance abuse and for the first time opening up a much-needed public conversation about their mental health and wellbeing.
15) Drops of Joy
Publisher
Maria Farinha Filmes
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Childhood games are a part of our social, intellectual and emotional formation. Through them we socialize, define ourselves, and internalize many of the cultural habits of adult life. We all played in our childhood, and were free and happy while playing. But do we still keep this joyful spirit and playful culture alive within us? Would the child we once were be proud of the adult we became? DROPS OF JOY is a manifesto on the importance of sustaining...
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This documentary chronicles efforts to provide survival resources and opportunities for homeless and at risk people to start a new life. Intertwined in the day-to-day operations of The Stewpot, the film focuses on three of its clients and their deeply personal struggles to stabilize their lives: Gerald Williams, a musician whose crack addiction ruined his career; Alisa Flores, a victim of an abusive relationship; and Velietta Dickens Rogers, a rape...
18) In the Sun
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
IN THE SUN is a poignant and inspiring documentary that lets viewers in on the personal skin health journeys of seven families facing extraordinary circumstances as they uncover the long-term effects of living IN THE SUN.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Featuring interviews with Cedric the Entertainer, John Salley, and Stic of the hip-hop duo Dead Prez, this documentary shows how intertwined histories of slavery, twentieth-century socioeconomic inequalities, and the rise of Big Food, have led to the increased consumption and dependence on meat, processed, junk, and fast food.
20) Defining Hope
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illness, with the stories of the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves. DEFINING HOPE focuses on palliative care, end of life issues, hospice care and what 'quality of life' really means. It offers a hopeful message about bringing power back to the patient...
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