You will need a Netflix Account to view these films. Some movies are linked straight to the movie website or Amazon Instant video on demand.
Food Matters
There's an overwhelming number of Americans dealing with metabolic syndrome, obesity, and several more food-related conditions, Food Matters takes a timely and hard-hitting look at how the food we eat is helping or hurting our health, and what we can do to live (and eat) better.
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Ingredients
Ingredients unearth's the roots of the local food movement and digs into the stories of the chefs, farmers, and activists transforming our broken food system. This upbeat, beautifully-photographed film introduces us to the verdant farms and pioneering restaurants where good food is produced and served. From innovative farm-to-table programs in Harlem to picturesque sheep farms in Oregon's Willamette Valley, INGREDIENTS shows the heart of an alternative food system – healthy, sustainable and tasty. Through interviews with world-class chefs such as Alice Waters and Greg Higgins and #sustainability-minded farmers in Oregon, New York, and Ohio.
INGREDIENTS weaves an uplifting tale that is equal parts earthy rebellion and mouth-watering homage.
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Homo Toxicus
Documentarian Carole Poliquin uses wit, intelligence, and common sense to unravel bureaucratic red tape and illuminate the science of the more than 100,000 chemicals created since World War II that contaminate mammals, plants, fish and even human DNA. Poliquin examines the prevalence of estrogen-mimicking compounds resulting in a lower birth rate of human males and the mutations of various species, and how science and governments are reacting.
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Life Running Out of Control
Since the mid-1980s, the science of genetics has exploded, offering hope for medical researchers and biologists seeking to feed people, as well as deep concerns for proponents of organic foods and activists worried about human gene manipulation. This documentary explores the powerful ways in which biotechnology affects our lives, from the sale of genetically altered salmon to the obtaining of consent for unwitting donors of human tissue.
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FrontLine: Sick around America
There's a very interesting insight from one of the interviewees in this movie that blows me away. We'll cover this in class.
Few Americans in the early years of the 21st century would argue that the country's healthcare system is healthy; however, fewer still would be likely to agree about how to fix it. This “Frontline” special attempts to find some answers. Traveling around the country, going inside insurance companies and taking a hard look at one state's failed efforts at healthcare reform, the program tackles one of the toughest issues of modern times.
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Dying To Have Known
This film shows how controversial the treatment of cancer is in America. It's amazing to see how wide the outlook is between western medicine and plant-based treatments. And how skewed the facts regarding the whole foods approach to attacking chronic illness.
Filmmaker Steve Kroschel sets out to determine the legitimacy of a holistic cancer treatment that has been around — and been dismissed by the American medical establishment — for nearly a century.
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This film demonstrates how important Bees are to our everyday lives. Without Bees, we cease to exist!!
This documentary details the economic, political and ecological consequences of a dwindling world honeybee population. It's a phenomenon with a name — Colony Collapse Disorder — but no explanation or solution exists.
Watch Now On Netflix: The Vanishing of the Bees
Living Matrix: Film on the New Science of Healing
The Living Matrix, a new documentary by Greg Becker and Harry Massey, is a provocative film about healing and the nature of human health. As they followed the trail of groundbreaking research across Europe and the U.S., Becker and Massey tracked down pioneering scientists and leaders in alternative medicine, and revealed a whole new model for understanding and promoting #wellness.
A full-length film, The Living Matrix brings breakthrough information that will transform your understanding of how to get well and stay well. The dynamic graphic animation is woven with interviews with leading researchers and health practitioners as they share their discoveries on the ‘miracle cures' traditional medicine can t explain. These experts reveal how energy and information fields – not genetics – drive human physiology and biochemistry, and illustrate the benefits of integrating conventional and alternative health care.
