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Surrounded by Waves

A global exploration of the health impacts of electromagnetic waves in our wireless technology.

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Stroke

A personal film diary of a man's rehabilitation from a life threatening brain-stem stroke.

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Song of the Soul: Stories of Hospice in South Africa

An inside look at urban and rural hospice centers across South Africa that provide community-based compassionate care in the face of widespread poverty.

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Luckey

A highly engrossing family drama about a successful artist who must cope with his sudden paralysis following an accident.

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Left in Baghdad

An American soldier returns from Iraq without his left arm and adapts to life with new physical challenges.

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Ladies in Waiting

A maternity clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo copes with its patients' lack of money while trying to provide the best-intentioned care.

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Glassy-Eyed

After painter Bill Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he began his greatest body of work - a decade-long series of self-portraits chronicling his journey into dementia.

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Flying People

A world champion kite flyer shares his passion for flight with a man blind from birth in this tale of friendship that challenges our notions of disability.

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Famous 4A

Set in a hospice care center, captures the bond shared between patients and caregivers, grown children and their ailing parents, while challenging stereotypes of aging and dying.

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Congo in Four Acts

A quartet of short films (on one dvd) that lay bare the reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Dying to Live

Captures a year in the lives of four people waiting for life-saving organ transplants.

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Stroke Recovery

A comprehensive resource intended to aid stroke survivors and their caregivers during the ongoing recovery process.

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NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT at IFC Center, NYC

Tickets for NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT are on sale now online, including for the Friday & Saturday 8:10pm shows featuring a Q&A with Patricio Guzman — book now!

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Love Limits

Two people with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy are united in their commitment to each other and to living their lives with dignity and grace.

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Vital Signs

An edgy, raw documentary exploring the politics of disability through performances at a national conference on disability and the arts.

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Outsider

Judith Scott has Down syndrome, is deaf, and does not speak. Yet after 35 years of institutionalization, with the help of a sister who never gave up on her, she emerged to create a series of sculptures...

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Outside In

Spanning nine years, Dr. Kasia Clark's story reveals how the human spirit can combine with medicine, complementary therapies, support, athletics, and art to challenge cancer.

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Our Daily Poison

Reveals how everyday chemicals—pesticides, Aspartame and plastics—may be slowly poisoning us.

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One in Eight

Janice was 33 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. This is an irreverent and highly personal look at one woman's fight with a disease that affects one in eight women.

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A Mother Never Gives Up Hope

Shares the candid and powerful stories of Ruth, Lova, Anne and Rita—four women who are dealing with abuse at the hands of an adult son.

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Making Every Moment Count

<br />Addresses the complex issues surrounding palliative end-of-life care for children. Psychologist Leora Kuttner profiles five children with life threatening illness, and the families and...

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Learning To Speak Alzheimer's

Applying the basic concepts of habilitation the video shows how to create a suitable environment in which the person can lead a quality life through proactive adjustments.

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Freedom of Sexual Expression

Looks at sexuality and intimacy as basic human rights for those living with a decreased cognizance in a nursing home.

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At the Breaking Point

Short video excerpts that reflect on several crucial aspects of family caregiving-from the effects of Alzheimer's on the spousal relationship to the right to die with dignity.

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Alzheimer's Disease: Inside Looking Out

Through the stories of eight people with Alzheimer's disease, this touching video gives viewers a real and vivid sense of what it's like to experience the early stages of progressive memory loss.

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Branding Illness

A documentary exposé of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.

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Killed by Care

Explores the tragic consequences of medical error on patients, their families and on health care workers, and asks how medicine can be made safer.

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The Disappearing Male

Looks at a class of common chemicals doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.

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Roll On

Aims to share the everyday lives of families living with neuromuscular disorders.

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The Substance

Chock-full of rare footage and LSD-celebrity interviews, an informative and enteraining historical and scientific "trip."

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New Release: Toward Daylight

To kindle the hope necessary for the living to face, and move on from, the pain and loss of suicide, five people tell their stories.

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Rare

RARE follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time to find a treatment for her daughter's rare genetic disease.

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