King Corn (2007), A Billion Lives (2016), Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer? (2016), I Am Because We Are (2008), Padman (2018), We Were Here (2011), Sicko (2007), Bowling for Columbine (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Public Health movies.
Storyline: Two recent college graduates travel to Iowa to investigate the role that corn plays in an increasingly complicated and dysfunctional American food industry. After planting their own small crop of corn and tracing its journey through the industry, they are alarmed to discover that corn figures in almost everything Americans eat. The consequences of this are examined through interviews with various experts and industry insiders, providing a balanced look at this American agricultural issue.
Plot Keywords: documentary, agriculture, health, sustainability, environment, economy, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of the vaping revolution and tragic corruption leading to a billion deaths around the world.
Plot Keywords: documentary, health, public health, science, policy, controversy, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The ethical dilemma of opioid prescriptions is examined through the story of Dr. William Hurwitz, a preeminent doctor sentenced to 25 years in prison for overprescribing painkillers.
Plot Keywords: documentary, addiction, drug abuse, medical ethics, patients, crisis, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
Plot Keywords: documentary, poverty, orphans, humanitarianism, social issues, africa, health crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Biography on Tamil Nadu activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, whose mission was to provide sanitary napkin's to poor women of rural areas. Who would use rag cloths or leaves during periods where use of sanitary napkins was rare. After he did not get fruitful results from his family and a medical college he approached, he decided to try it himself by making a uterus out of football bladder and filling goat's blood in it. He would roam around the whole day with the bladder, the aim was to check the absorption rate of the sanitary napkins made by him.
Plot Keywords: social issue, biographical, drama, inspirational, taboo, innovation, entrepreneurship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'We Were Here' is the first film to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco, and how the City's inhabitants dealt with that unprecedented calamity. It explores what was not so easy to discern in the midst of it all - the parallel histories of suffering and loss, and of community coalescence and empowerment. Though this is a San Francisco based story, the issues it addresses extend not only beyond San Francisco but also beyond AIDS itself. 'We Were Here' speaks to our societal relationship to death and illness, our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and the importance of community in addressing unimaginable crises.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, lgbt, san francisco, history, epidemic, community, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, "Who are we?"—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, healthcare system, social issues, politics, critique, reform, capitalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, social issues, gun violence, american culture, politics, media influence, controversial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Robert Redford narrates this environmentally conscious documentary, which offers a rafting tour of the majestic Grand Canyon. Throughout the adventure, the filmmakers question the water consumption habits of contemporary Americans, while contrasting these current trends with the practices of the Native Americans who previously inhabited the Colorado River basin. The documentarians also explore ways in which Americans could develop a more harmonious relationship with their natural water sources.
Plot Keywords: documentary, adventure, nature, environment, conservation, river, exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.
Plot Keywords: documentary, pandemic, u.s. government, public health, crisis management, corruption, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: documentary, environment, pollution, social issues, politics, investigation, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A personal, important, surprising, and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention.
Plot Keywords: documentary, cancer, health, medicine, lifestyle, public health, environment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film examines a complicated situation from several angles while bringing a story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.—Crude Production
Plot Keywords: documentary, environmental, legal, pollution, amazon, human rights, environmental disaster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of urgent care. In this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.
Plot Keywords: documentary, mexico, healthcare, poverty, family business, social issues, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: ATOMIC HOMEFRONT reveals St. Louis, Missouri's atomic past as a uranium processing center for the Atomic bomb and the governmental and corporate negligence that lead to the illegal dumping of Manhattan Project radioactive waste throughout North County neighborhoods. Our film is a case study of how citizens are confronting state and federal agencies for the truth about the extent of the contamination and are fighting to keep their families safe.
Plot Keywords: documentary, environmental, pollution, activism, government cover-up, public health, health crisis ...
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