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A Place at the Table. Tells the powerful stories of three Americans who maintain their dignity even as they struggle just to eat. It specifically addresses our country's hunger crisis, but also speaks to larger hungers for independence, a dignified life and a better chance for one's children. The video shows how the issue could be solved forever, once the American public decides - as they have in the past - that ending hunger is in the best interest of us all.
Health for Sale. Are the world's largest drug companies, paradoxically, major obstacles to creating a healthier world? Focusing on Big Pharma, the ten largest pharmaceutical makers, who account for 500 billion dollars of world health spending a year, we hear from officials from all sides of the debate regarding the impact of drug companies' patenting, intellectual property, pricing, and new product development strategies on global public health.
Money-Driven Medicine. Reveals why comprehensive healthcare reform will remain a challenge for years ahead and points to paths for the future. Doctors and health researchers show the movement for patient-centered, accountable care can be carried into classrooms, hospitals, doctors' offices and community forums. Four versions are included: The complete film; Inside the Medical-Industrial Complex (Profits and Patients); the Doctor-Patient Partners (Changing the Culture of American Healthcare); Understanding America's Healthcare Crises (An Introduction); and Online Healthcare Reform Learning Center.
One Drop Rule. The film tactfully explores skin color consciousness with African Americans and interracial adults of Black and white parents. Participants discuss the stresses of interracial dating. The children of interracial marriages explore feelings of being pressured by others to choose between two cultural identities. They explain the added burden of not being readily accepted by either racial group.
Race - The Power of an Illusion. This challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs - that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups. This 3-part series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs. The series includes: The Difference Between Us; The Story We Tell; and The House We Live In.
Unnatural Causes. This ground-breaking documentary series sheds light on mounting evidence of how inequities in the rest of our lives - the jobs we do, the wealth we enjoy, the neighborhoods we live in - can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses. Solutions are not in more pills but in more equitable social policies. Seven sections cover: In Sickness and in Wealth; When the Bough Breaks; Becoming American; Bad Sugar; Place Matters; Collateral Damage; and Not Just a Paycheck.
The Angry Eye. The film documents the effects of racial prejudice with starting force and emotional intensity. Taking pigmentation - in this case, eye color - as an arbitrary dividing line, the video builds a microcosm of contemporary American society, compelling the more privileged blue-eyed participants to live in another world for the longest two and a half hours of their lives.
The Raising of America. The first documentary series to explore how a strong start for all our kids can lead to a healthier, more prosperous and equitable America. Includes 5 episodes: The Raising of America; Once Upon a Time; Are We Crazy about Our Kids?; Wounded Places; and DNA is Not Destiny.
The Stolen Eye. Imagine that you had been forcibly removed from your parents and raised never knowing your true heritage - all because of the color of your skin. Imagine that the white government wanted to make your entire race extinct - just because you weren't born white. If you lived in Australia and were Aboriginal, this was your fate and you became part of the "stolen generation." The discussion of racism in Australia lends itself to a segue to discrimination in the United States.
Worlds Apart. A four part series on cross-cultural healthcare provides a balanced yet penetrating look at both the patients' cultures and the culture of medicine. An invaluable tool to raise awareness about the role of sociocultural barriers in patient-provider communication and the provision of healthcare services for culturally and ethnically diverse patients.