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Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a woman who thought she had it all until she lost her beloved mother to cancer. Trying to process and understand her profound grief, Suzanne embarked on a journey and turned to a deeper practice of yoga. Along the way, she discovers what yoga is. Suzanne's journey led her to India, where she studied various disciplines of yoga and met with respected gurus. During her visit, she came face-to-face with a near death experience and...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzheimer's disease. Many know the unique tragedy of this disease, but few know that Alzheimer's is also a major and rapidly growing public health crisis. This documentary powerfully illuminates the social consequences for America unless a medical breakthrough is discovered for this currently incurable disease.
3) RAMPED UP
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Americans with Disabilities Act - signed into law in 1990 - was referred to as the Emancipation Proclamation for Americans with disabilities. But because the government mostly lacks the power to ensure the law is followed, people with disabilities bear the primary burden of its enforcement through lawsuits. Defendants of these lawsuits say that the law is far too technical for business owners to keep up with, which leads to abuse. RAMPED UP addresses...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The addict’s brain has changed and, consequently, recovering from alcohol and substance abuse can be a long and complex process. Program 4: Overcoming Addiction shows how understanding that full-blown addiction is a brain disease is revolutionizing the definition of addiction and its treatment.
Publisher
Vital Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
What will it mean for all of us to grow up, live and age in a society where half the citizens are over the age of 50? That reality is closer than most of us are willing to imagine.. Never in human history have so many lived for so long – and not just in the United States. It is a global phenomenon, ushering a spectacular social transformation. COMING OF AGE IN AGING AMERICA tells the story of its dimensions, challenges and opportunities.
6) E-Motion
Publisher
Play TV
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world where the trapped emotions, fears, anxieties and unprocessed life experiences we hold in our bodies are the source of everything that ails us. That’s the world we live in. Now, imagine a world where everyone is manifesting from their heart the perfect creation that’s inside each of us. Imagine a world where abundance, inner peace, longevity and loving relationships abound.. Imagine emotion experts from around the world sharing...
7) Blind Faith
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the stirring personal journey, both intimate and universal, of a man coming to terms with his disability and struggling with the roles of father, husband, and successful entrepreneur, breaking through the myths of blindness and broadening our understanding of the complex hidden realities facing the blind community.. Official Selection at the NYC Independent Film Festival. “I was especially moved by all the emotional themes...
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning documentary telling the unlikely story of what happens when New York's legendary Mark Morris Dance Group joins forces with people with Parkinson's disease to stage a unique performance.. CAPTURING GRACE is a story about the power of art and the enduring strength of the human spirit. Focusing on the rediscovery of a lighter step and the sweetness of motion, this film is about a remarkable community of dancers -- some professional,...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While we live in a highly sexualized society, the messaging around female sexuality is distorted and rife with shame. What women should look like, who women should want, what women should desire...in fact, who women should be, is dictated to us from screens and pages and people.. INSIDE HER SEX is a thought-provoking, feature-length documentary that explores female sexuality and shame through the eyes and experiences of three women from different...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This beautiful documentary tells the inspiring story of how love and art can transform tragedy into the brightest affirmation of life.. Director Richard Kane follows Jon Imber as he remains determined to continue his work as an artist despite the debilitating effects of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). Thanks to the support of his partner, Jill Hoy, Imber learns to paint with his left hand, and then with both of his hands as his condition...
11) Drugs of Abuse
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Drugs of Abuse, shows how mind-altering drugs have been an ever-present part of human culture, the positive and negative effects of drugs of abuse and how they influence the brain and consequently affect mood and behavior.
12) The Human Brain
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Human Brain, lays out the neural-biochemical nature of the brain and examines the relationship of the brain to drugs of abuse.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Recent discoveries by neuroscientists have changed the conversation around addiction, providing answers and raising new questions that point to new directions in understanding the brain and its relationship with drugs of abuse. Program 5: Directions for the Future, examines how the treatment of drug addiction as a brain disease is in its earliest stages.
14) Special Blood
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A poignant, no-holds-barred documentary chronicling the lives of four patients with a dramatic, rare disease. Due to the rarity of their condition, Ava, Noah, Kelsie, and Lora face mis-diagnosis, improper treatment, and preventable tragedy in the emergency room all as they fight to live normal lives. Struggling to be heard by an ignorant healthcare system, they join their voices together to conquer adversity and create change.. SPECIAL BLOOD explores...
15) Food Matters
Publisher
Food Matters International PTY LTD
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This documentary is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures, we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient-sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation.. Join the world's leading authorities on nutrition and natural healing...
16) Brainstorm
Publisher
Stacia Kalinoski
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Emmy Award-winning journalist Stacia Kalinoski confronts her epilepsy after losing her career to a seizure. As she seeks treatment including brain surgery, she documents her journey as a way to raise awareness about the brain disorder that affects over 3 million people in the United States alone.. BRAINSTORM aims to reduce the stigma by showing how three people with very different epilepsy types battle seizures to live their lives to the fullest....
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The "War on Drugs" is almost 50 years old, with trillions of dollars spent and countless lives lost and ruined. In the 21st century, neuroscience is finally providing real tools needed to fight addiction.. This incredible, comprehensive series explains and identifies the brain's various roles in addiction, how drugs of abuse hijack the brain making us more susceptible to addictive behavior, how addictive behavior affects our brains, our lives and...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 2014, three young fashion bloggers came to Phnom Pehn for the first time to spend a month and live the life of a Cambodian garment worker. At the time, they did not know much about how their clothes were made and were horrified to find the conditions at the factories. The show provoked headlines and articles all over the world and companies like H&M were forced to respond.. In this sequel, Anniken and Frida Ottesen from the first season are joined...
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Using art as the catalyst, this film explores how the human spirit prevails in the face of tragedy. SHOULDER THE LION features three people; a photographer who becomes blind, a painter/sculptor (the real-life inspiration for "Million Dollar Baby") who loses half her brain in a boxing match, and a musician losing his hearing to tinnitus. Using art to illustrate change, this film explores how the human spirit prevails in the face of tragedy and what...
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