Health Documentaries
Health docs are all about our well-being including physical and mental. Food and it's personal and social impacts on health are also explored here. Sometimes you may feel a real human connection to the people featured in some of these films. There are many about human well-being in general, and some fascinating features on food.
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Extraordinary People: My Face is Eating Me Alive
Eight years ago, when Tare was 13 years old, she had a toothache. Her mum Thandiwe told her not t...
7.4
Views: 6,967
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Mystery Diagnosis: The Man Who Tripled In Size
Walt Breidigan starts out with flu-like symptoms, but soon becomes dizzy from hypotension. He dev...
7.2
Views: 5,805
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The Man Who Ate Himself To Death
The tragic story of Ricky Naputi, one of the world's fattest men. At nearly 65 stone, bedridden a...
5.8
Views: 7,905
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The Tiniest Girl In The World
Two-year-old Charlotte weighs less than eight pounds and wears the clothes of a newborn baby. At ...
7.9
Views: 5,913
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Dying To Sleep
This documentary deals with a very rare and unusual prion disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia ...
5.6
Views: 4,538
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Mystery Diagnosis: Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
Ashley's illness began with chronic diarrhea as an infant, and branched out to such diverse sympt...
6.8
Views: 4,907
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The Eight-Limbed Boy
Six-year-old Deepak was born with an extra body growing out of his chest. His extra set of limbs ...
9.1
Views: 4,603
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Locally Abundant
In the summer of 2011, two young Maritimers, Justin Cantafio and Ryan Oickle, departed on a journ...
6.5
Views: 4,046
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The Cure Is
The Cure Is.... features doctors, scientists and spiritual leaders showing how thoughts and emoti...
7.6
Views: 11,164
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The Abortion Diaries
THE ABORTION DIARIES is a documentary featuring 12 women who speak candidly about their experienc...
7.8
Views: 11,011
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Too Fat To Toddle
Prof Gately and his team have been running successful weight loss camps for teenagers for eight y...
6.5
Views: 6,876
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An Inconvenient Tooth
This stunning documentary, which features scientists, health professionals and activists, was rec...
8.8
Views: 6,292
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History's Mysteries: Small Pox Deadly Again?
Since the dawn of time, the smallpox virus terrorized mankind. In the 20th century alone, it took...
8.2
Views: 4,185
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Monitor Me
Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives...
4.0
Views: 2,784
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The Sick Story of Genetically Modified Organisms
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is created in the lab using scientific methods to splice ch...
8.8
Views: 10,182
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Seeds of Freedom
Seeds of Freedom seeks to challenge the mantra that large-scale, industrial agriculture is the on...
8.6
Views: 3,220
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