The Angry Heart. Fanlight Productions, 2001, 57 minutes.  A compelling illustration of how racism and discrimination contribute to the disproportionate rate of heart disease among African-Americans.

The Brain. WNET, 1984, each episode 60 minutes. The fourth episode "Stress and Emotion," describes the physiology of stress and how one's sense of control affects capacity to deal with stresses.

Breath Taken. Fanlight Productions, 1990, 33 minutes. Documentary on environmental and occupational contamination from asbestos, as well as the toll of sickness and death due to asbestos-related diseases.

Clockwork. California Newsreel, 1982, 25 minutes. Demonstrates the impact of factory production management techniques, from early Taylorism to contemporary computer‑assisted regulation.

Ending Hunger in the Garden State: Recommendations and Reform. New Jersey Commission on Hunger, 1987, 35 minutes. Probes the extent of the problem of hunger and various responses in one of the wealthiest states.

Famine Within. Direct Cinema, Ltd., 1990, 50 minutes.  Documentary about women, food, body image, and eating disorders.

Plagued: A Series on Disease and Society. Film Australia (distributed by Filmakers Library), 1994, four 52-minute episodes. A historical and cross-cultural analysis of plagues and new diseases. Part 1 is disappointing and of questionable accuracy; parts 2 and 3 are good for the social history of epidemics; part 4 discusses AIDS and syphilis in a comparative perspective.

The Politics of Food. Yorkshire Television, 1988, 2 hours. Covers political sources of hunger and famine, problems with food aid, politics and agricultural policies, and alternative political approaches.

Song of the Canary. New Day Films, 1978, 57 minutes. Provocatively examines occupational health problems, using case studies of chemical and textile workers.

Trade Secrets. PBS, 2001, 150 minutes.  Bill Moyers probes the issue of chemical hazards in the workplace and industries’ concealment of these dangers for their workers.

Community Voices: Exploring Cross-Cultural Care through Cancer. Fanlight Productions, 2001, 69 minutes.  Explores how cultural differences (such as language and communication styles, religion and cultural values, ethnic patterns, and ideas about health and illness) affect health and healthcare services.

The Deadly Deception: The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. WGBH/ Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993, 56 minutes. Documentary on a large‑scale ethically questionable biomedical research project and its social aftermath.

Healing and the Mind. PBS/Ambrose Video, 1993. Five‑part series. Bill Moyers explores Chinese healing approaches, research on mind‑body connections, nonmedical therapies, and U.S. experiences with the importance of the social‑emotional factors in health and healing.

Inventing Reality. PBS/Millennium series, #8, 1992, 60 minutes. Depicts the healing approaches of a Mexican Huichol shaman, in comparison with an innovative Canadian cancer treatment center, underlining differences of underlying assumptions of nonbiomedical healing systems.

 Medicine at the Crossroads. WNET and BBE Productions, 1993, eight-part series, each episode 60 minutes. The episodes "The Code of Silence" on doctor-patient communication and "Life Support" on the ethics of death and aging in various countries are very relevant.

 The Mind. WNET, 1988, each episode 60 minutes. The episodes "Aging" and "Pain and Healing" are particularly useful.

 On Our Own Terms. PBS/ Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2000, four-part series, each episode nearly 90 minutes.  Bill Moyers shows extraordinary empathy and profound insight in this examination of death and dying in America.  Episodes 2 (on hospice and other forms of alternative settings for dying) and 4 (on changing the health system to improve end-of-life care) are particularly relevant.

The Skin Horse. Central Independent Television PIC, 1983, 1 hour. Evocative documentary that deals with sexuality and disability.

Taking Our Bodies Back: The Women's Health Movement. Cambridge Documentary Films, 1974, 16 mm., 33 minutes. Examines the development and issues of the women's health movement; contains graphic material about self‑help techniques and abortion.

To Taste a Hundred Herbs. New Day Films, 1986, 58 minutes. Portrays the linkage of traditional Chinese medicine, religion, Chinese village life, and the role of the doctor.

Titticut Follies. Zipporah Films, 1967, 16 mm., 89 minutes, black and white. Frederick Wiseman's controversial cinéma verité documentary (no narration) about a hospital for the criminally insane that illustrates a total institution, with different worlds of staff and inmates.

 When Billy Broke His Head and Other Tales of Wonder. Fanlight Productions, 1994, 57 minutes.  Narrated and directed by Billy Golfus who was brain-injured, this video looks at the "invisibility" of people with disabilities and barriers to access and social inclusion they encounter.

Without Pity. HBO/ Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996, 56 minutes.  Narrated by Christopher Reeve, this fine documentary humanizes people with disabilities and emphasizes their resilient efforts to live full, productive lives.

Borderline Medicine.  Baxley Media, 1991, 58 minutes. Examines Canadian National Health Insurance as a model for the United States.

Can't Afford to Grow Old. Filmakers Library, 1990, 55 minutes. Examines the social policy issues surrounding long-term care, Medicare and Medicaid, and a medicalized old age and death.

Critical Condition (with Hedrick Smith). SCET/ Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2000, 4 - 50 minute episodes. A series addressing the crisis in the U. S. health care system.  The fourth episode on “The Uninsured” is the strongest.

Doctors and Dollars. PBS, 1993, 57 minutes. Depicts the issues involved in doctors' self-referral and conflicts of interest.

Health Care Rationing. PBS, 1991, 58 minutes. Compares the case of Oregon's efforts to devise a fair system for rationing health care for the poor with the situation of Chicago inner‑city poor people whose access to health care is denied by the de facto system of rationing according to who can pay.

Nurses: Code Blue.  Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001, 2 episodes, each 29 minutes.  Discusses the nursing shortage and dissatisfaction with working conditions in the profession.

Pharmaceuticals:  For Export Only. Richter Productions, English and Spanish editions, 57 minutes. Discusses pharmaceuticals that have been banned or highly restricted in the United States, but are still produced here for export to Third World countries, which have little effective means to control or ban these substances that harm public-health.

Prescriptions for Profit. PBS, 1989, 60 minutes. Questions marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry.

Setting Limits. Medical University of South Carolina, 1988, 47 minutes. Lecture by ethicist Daniel Callahan about the proper ends of medicine and appropriate medical care for the aged and dying.

Who Lives, Who Dies. Public Policy Productions, 1987, 60 minutes. Explores the crisis in the U.S. health care system, and raises issues of health care spending, equity, rationing, and, priorities in national spending.