The Spanish Flu: An Invisible Enemy
1918 was an "unprecedented" time in human history: World War I was still raging, and a deadly plague was about to unleash itself onto the planet. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic...
Health
A Bittersweet Deal: The Diabetes Business
For the last 40 to 50 years, the number of people with diabetes worldwide has nearly quadrupled. It’s called the silent epidemic (over 400 million people have diabetes), it’s...
Globesity
Over the last 40 years, a silent epidemic has slowly been making millions of people very sick. Obesity is a major global health problem; it is estimated that by 2030, half the world will be obese or overweight. The film...
The Journey of Humankind: Cheating Death
There has only been one constant companion to humanity's epic journey throughout history, and that's death. We have conquered many challenges, made massive progress, yet today, we...
Poisoned Land: The Rural Rise of Parkinson’s
Parkinson's Disease is a progressive neurological disorder that has no cure. It causes extreme stiffness in the limbs and uncontrollable shaking and tremors, among other symptoms. It...
Big Pharma: Gaming the System
The medical profession is well respected, and this is no surprise because the entire field of study is dedicated to the preservation of life. Medical professionals take their role so seriously physicians even traditionally...
Fat Fiction
Obesity is a global problem, one that seems to have a straight-forward enough solution - manage one’s diet better. However, in America, managing food consumption is really not as simple as it ought to be. In fact, the obesity...
The Healthcare Divide
COVID has brought to light the disparities in American healthcare and how the pandemic has hit hospitals hard. Among these hospitals are the so-called safety-net hospitals (SNHs), whose mission is to serve working-class,...
Vaccines: A Measured Response
The Covid19 pandemic has brought the discussion about vaccine safety back into the headlines. And yet, despite media making it seem like a controversial issue debated over the last century, it's not. Vaccine doubts only began...
Global Junk Food
In this feature, we get a glimpse into the world of fast-food advertising, mainly in developing countries. International food brands are not afraid to incorporate the local culture of these countries in the advertising of their...
3 Days that Stopped the World
This documentary follows the experience of two journalists trying to investigate the Covid-19 virus outbreak in Wuhan, China. They report on their experience investigating the outbreak three days before the first official...
The Age of Disconnection
Connection is the key to our survival. In this fast-paced world of endless commotion, we have lost touch with the natural environments that defined the origins of our species. That void has left a massive space we seek to fill...
Childhood 2.0
The lives of children used to be filled with hours of outdoor frolic, morning paper routes, and boundless adventures of the imagination. How times have changed. Childhood 2.0 characterizes our modern generation of kids and...
Right to Fail
In Right to Fail, the PBS Frontline series teams up with ProPublica to investigate the relocation of mentally ill populations on the outskirts of New York City. The story brings up a series of moral questions involving an...