Public Health Movies

Made by Sid Davis, a prolific director of social guidance films, this anti-smoking film takes a blunt, no-nonsense approach to smoking cessation,...

Little Johnny Jones, to be born in the next year, is shown growing to a ripe, healthy old age, thanks to the efforts of his local public health...

This "Theater of Life" series short focuses on a medical services ship that stops in the native village of Haines, Alaska. The natives are depicted...

In an era of throw-away ease, convenience has cost us our well-being. Plastics have been found inside our bodies— in our colons, our brains,...

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from...

As vacationers go on hiking trips, swim, sunbathe, fish, pick mushrooms and ski in various resorts across the Soviet Union, scientist Evgeni Chazov...

Investigative journalist Joshua Philipp examines the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, covering events from late...

Beijing, China, 2020. Empty streets, mandatory masks, checkpoints, the entire state apparatus used to impose severe restrictions on population...

Behind the scenes of news coverage during the pandemic. Follow the work of the professional press in a fight against denialism.

A fly, taken with humanity, decides that it would be best if all flies were wiped out.

This film makes visible the invisible cholera germs as a young boy shows how to help the sick and guides his village in preventing the spread of...

Help Agent Cool track the plaque! This interactive short was included on a mini DVD with specially marked bottles of Cool Blue briefly, before the...

A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.

This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at...

In "The Cost of Forever", we uncover the hidden and costly dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ in our rivers and drinking water sources,...

The UN General Assembly regards antibiotic-resistance as a "global and most urgent threat". The WHO alarms that we could fall back into a...

Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, Honorable but Broken highlights the highs and significant lows -- the emotional toll of the job, lack of mental...

We have had too much medicine for too many years. The time to act is now. How one doctor's fight against corporate greed led to an ancient,...