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Pay or Die chronicles the battle to improve insulin costs and the healthcare system, capturing the grief of those lost but also showing hope and resilience.
The Surge at Mount Sinai details the struggle early healthcare workers faced in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presented virtually, Arlin Golden takes a look at the documentaries that premiered at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival.
As a follow-up to 2008’s Mental, Zero offers a pleasantly intimate but never intrusive portrait of the life of Dr. Masatomo Yamamoto.
Ordinary Love’s minimalist approach to the narrative puts a lot of pressure on the performers, but fortunately, Manville, Neeson and Wilmot shine through at nearly every instance.
The Roads Not Taken is surprisingly immersive and punctuated with many emotional beats along the way.
Ed Perkins’ documentary Tell Me Who I Am is an experience that’s both remarkable and powerful.
América is an empathetic, heartening documentary, painfully true in its depiction of the hardships arising from family members caring for an elder who’s losing her grip on their and her own identity.
Netflix documentary The Bleeding Edge explores the issues surrounding the medical advances in providing healthcare.
In Avatar, a quadriplegic regains his motor skills by connecting to an alien body. In real life, we’re looking at exosuits and bioelectric medicine. Welcome to the future.
The lesson of Frank is that mental illness is a hindrance, not a gift of inspiration, and romanticising it is a dangerous road to go down.
Clunky and at times, confusing, Here and Now fails to give Sarah Jessica Parker the chance to dive deep into herself and give the emotional performance she was hoping for.
We spoke with Richard Todd about the difficult process of making his emotionally stirring documentary about organ donation, Dying To Live.
Richard Todd’s Dying to Live is a sincere portrait of the state of Australian organ donation, a weirdly taboo topic with the highest of stakes.
Seeing a successful bodybuilder physically breaking apart toes the line towards Ronnie Coleman: the King being a cautionary tale, but it’s ultimately saved by the view of his private life.
