Public Health Documentaries


If I was to design a course about public health (note: excluding dietary and food-related documentaries) -- these are the movies (documentaries) and the order that I would pick. 


I would also add these documentaries to encourage smarter ways about addressing problems especially in medical related statistical analysis.  I figure if computer scientists can teach cars how to drive, then we certainly should be able to do a better (more automated) way of analyzing health related data.




AIDS/HIV Documentaries


BBC DNA 
  • DNA - Playing God (2012)
  • DNA - The Secret Of Life
  • DNA - Pandoras Box
  • DNA - The Human Race


BBC Horizon (Series)
  • BBC Horizon - SARS, The True Story (2003)
  • BBC Horizon - TB, The Forgotten Plague (1993)
  • BBC Horizon - Does The MMR Jab Cause Autism 24
  • BBC Horizon - Does The MMR Jab Cause Autism 44
  • BBC Horizon - How to live to 101 
  • BBC Horizon - Miracle Cure A Decade of the Human Genome
  • BBC Horizon - The Ghost in Your Genes 
  • BBC Horizon - Why do viruses kill 
  • BBC Horizon - Defeating Cancer (2012)
  • BBC Horizon - Defeating the Superbugs (2012)
  • BBC Horizon - The Truth About Exercise (2012)
  • BBC Horizon - The Truth About Fat (2012)
  • BBC Horizon - How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery (2013)
  • BBC Horizon - Mend Me - A Guide to Transplants (2013)
  • BBC Horizon - Monitor Me (2013)
  • BBC Horizon - The Horizon Guide to Pandemic (2013) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_OyT6clx1s
  • BBC Horizon - The Next Panademic


BBC Kill or Cure (Series)
  • Kill or Cure - Cervical Cancer - BBC Health Documentary
  • Kill or Cure - Doctors and Nurses - BBC Health Documentary
  • Kill or Cure - Pneumonia Drug Money - BBC Health Documentary
  • Kill or Cure - Taking Fakes - BBC Health Documentary
  • Kill or Cure - TB Vaccine - BBC Health Documentary
  • Kill or Cure - The Aid Traders - BBC Health Documentary


BBC Why Poverty? (8 part series)
  • BBC Why Poverty 1 of 8 Four Born Every Second (2012)
  • BBC Why Poverty 2 of 8 Give Us The Money (2012)
  • BBC Why Poverty 3 of 8 Stealing Africa (2012)
  • BBC Why Poverty 4 of 8 Park Avenue, Money, Power And The American Dream (2012)
  • BBC Why Poverty 5 of 8 Poor Us, An Animated History Of Poverty (2012)
  • BBC Why Poverty 6 of 8 Solar Mamas (2012)
  • BBC Why Poverty 7 of 8 The Great Land Rush (2012)
  • BBC Why Poverty 8 of 8 China's Ant People (2012)


BBC National Health Service (NHS)
  • BBC Timeshift - Health before the NHS - The Road to Recovery (1 of 2) (2012)
  • BBC Timeshift - Health before the NHS - A Medical Revolution (2 of 2) (2012)
  • BBC Keeping Britain Alive - The NHS In One Day - Season 01 - Episodes 1-7


HBO - Alzheimers Project (4 part series)
  • Alzheimer's Project - Caregivers
  • Alzheimer's Project - Granpa do You Know Who I Am
  • Alzheimer's Project - The Memory Loss Tapes
  • Alzheimer's Project - The Ultimate of Science


HBO - Weight of the Nation (Season 1 - 16 episodes)
  • Consequences
  • Choices
  • Children in Crisis
  • Challenges
  • Healthy Mom Healthy Baby
  • Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
  • Latino Health Access
  • Nashville Takes Action
  • Heart Disease
  • Poverty and Obesity
  • Stigma
  • Overweight in the Workplace
  • Biology of Weight Loss
  • Is Weight Something We Inherit
  • Healthy Foods and Obesity Prevention
  • Obesity Research


Global Fund
  • Global Fund - A New Picture of Health
  • Global Fund - An overview
  • Global Fund - 2011 Results at a Glance


Other Documentaries
  • BBC - One Night In Bhopal (2004)
  • BBC - The Men Who Made Us Fat
  • BBC - Cambodia Surgical Ward (2010)
  • BBC - Malaria - Return to River Road
  • BBC - Panorama - Stem Cells Miracles
  • BBC - The Joy of Statistics- Hans Rosling (2010)
  • BBC In Search of Spanish Flu
  • BBC - Pain, Pus and Poison (2013)
  • BBC - The World's Busiest Maternity Ward (2014)
  • BBC - TB: Return of the Plague /PBS - TB: Silent Killer (2013)
  • BBC - The Battle to beat Polio (2014)
  • CH4 - Secret History: Return of the Black Death (2013)
  • IBM Watson for Healthcare
  • Global Health Care Expenditures
  • Global Health Challenges in the 21st Century
  • Nurses on the Frontline - Indonesia
  • Nurses on the Frontline - Bolivia
  • I am because we are - Madonna/Malawi (2008)
  • Bangkok Girl (2005)
  • Born into Brothels (2006)
  • End of Poverty (2010)
  • Frontline - The Vaccine War (2010) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/view/
  • Frontline - Sick Around the World (2008)
  • Frontline - Sick Around America (2009) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundamerica/view/
  • Frontline - Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria (2013)
  • Frontline - Life and Death in Assisted Living (2013)
  • Novo - The Story of Insulin
  • PBS - Money and Medicine (2012)
  • PBS American Experience - The Poisoner Handbook (2014)
  • Up  Series - 7 Up, 7 Plus Seven, 21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up, 42 Up, 56 Up (2007)
  • A New Breed of Doctors (ADZU-SOM)
  • A War on Science - Intelligent Design
  • Africare Malaria Documentary
  • Ebola
  • American Experience - Influenza 1918 (2005)
  • NOVA - Ebola - Plague Fighters (2007)
  • NOVA - Typhoid Mary (2005)
  • NOVA - Cracking Your Genetic Code
  • NOVA - A Walk to Beautiful (2007)
  • NOVA - Surviving AIDS (1999)
  • NOVA - Doctors' Diaries (2009) 
  • PBS POV -The English Surgeon (2009) 
  • The Mystery of The Black Death
  • Marburg Virus - Angola
  • Drugs Inc (2010)
  • National Geographic - The Virus Hunters (2010)
  • History Channel - The Plague (2006)
  • In Search of Spanish Flu 1 of 2 - BBC Science Documentary (missing one part)
  • Vaccination - The Hidden Truth (1998)
  • Simply Raw - Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
  • Sprinter-Burzynski (2 part series)
  • Sub-Saharan Africa The problem of sepsis in HIV positive patients (Vanderbilt talk)
  • Richard Dimbleby Lecture - Bill Gates - The Impatient Optimist (2013)
  • Escape Fire (2012)
  • Sicko (2007)
  • The Waiting Room (2012) - http://www.whatruwaitingfor.com/
  • Living in Emergency - Doctors without Borders (2008)
  • The Business of Being Born (2008)


Diet Related
  • King Corn (2007)
  • Supersize Me (2004)
  • Forks over Knives (2011)
  • Food Inc (2008)


Movies
  • Glory Enough for All (poor quality)
  • Life Story (1987)
  • Awakenings (1990)
  • And The Band Played On (1993)
  • Philadelphia (1993)
  • First Do No Harm (1997)
  • Angels in America (2003)
  • Florence Nightingale (2008)
  • Extraordinary Measures (2010)
  • Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors without Borders (2010)
  • Contagion (2011)
  • Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  • The Normal Heart (2014)


Ted Talks (need to expand a comprehensive list)


Seeking the Following Documentaries
  • Under our Skin (2008)
  • The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories (2007)
  • 9000 Needles (2009)
  • Money-Driven Medicine (2009)
  • I am alive today - History of an AIDS drug (2002) - http://www.detourshenry.eu/en/azt.html
  • RX for Survival (2005)
  • National Geographic - Race Against the Killer Flu (2010)
  • History Channel - Toxic Agents: Viruses and Chemical and Biological Warfare - 6 hours (2008)
  • Nova: Epidemic - Ebola, AIDS, Bird Flu and Typhoid (2007)
  • PBS - Malaria: Fever Wars (2006)
  • http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/revisionaries/
  • http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/revolutionary-optimists/
  • http://www.nfb.ca/film/bethune (1964)
  • http://www.nfb.ca/film/war_hospital(2005)
  • http://www.nfb.ca/film/emergency_a_critical_situation (1999)
  • http://www.nfb.ca/film/medicine_under_influence (2004)
  • http://www.nfb.ca/film/weight_of_the_world (2003)
  • http://www.nfb.ca/film/quest (1958)
  • http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/healthcare_your_money_or_your_life (1978)


Repositories
  • http://www.snagfilms.com/
  • http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/