Hospital (1977)

Por primera vez en su vida, víctima de problemas cardiacos, Daniel Blake, carpintero inglés de 59 años, se ve obligado a acudir a las ayudas sociales. Sin embargo, a pesar de que el médico le ha prohibido trabajar, la administración le obliga a buscar un empleo si no desea recibir una sanción. En el transcurso de sus citas al “job center”, Daniel se cruza con Rachel, una madre soltera de dos niños que tuvo que aceptar un alojamiento a 450 km de su ciudad para evitar que la envíen a un hogar de acogida. Prisioneros de la maraña de aberraciones administrativas actuales de Gran Bretaña, Daniel y Rachel intentarán ayudarse mutuamente.

Cada año en los Estados Unidos, llegan al mercado innovaciones incomparables en diagnóstico, tratamiento y tecnología médica. Pero cuando los mismos dispositivos diseñados para salvar a los pacientes terminan perjudicándolos, ¿quién es responsable?.

En este desgarrador documental, una joven que prepara su tesis doctoral recurre a la cámara para dar visibilidad a su lucha diaria contra el síndrome de fatiga crónica.

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.

The documentary that answers the question: is having month-long double paid vacations, no fear of homelessness, and universal health care the nightmare we've been warned about? The answer may surprise you.

Documental que se centra en los perfiles personales de un grupo de veteranos y soldados en activo que se reúnen para enfrentar juntos traumas pasados y actuales a través de la fuerza de la palabra escrita, compartiendo sus experiencias en un taller de escritura organizado en el Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic, but burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.

After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, what starts as a son's video diary becomes a citizen's investigation into the future of American health care.

With a single abortion clinic remaining in the state of Mississippi, the city of Jackson has become ground zero in the nation's battle over reproductive health-care. Jackson is an intimate portrait of the interwoven lives of three women in this town. Wrought with the racial and religious undertones of the Deep South, the lives of two women are deeply affected by the director of the local pro-life crisis pregnancy center and the movement she represents.

Madrid (España) ha sido una de las regiones más golpeadas del mundo por la pandemia del Covid-19. Al declararse el estado de alarma, Hernán Zin salió con su cámara a retratarla desde todos los frentes: hospitales, ambulancias, residencias, morgues, funerarias, controles policiales, hospitales de campaña. Un trabajo de más de cuatro meses de rodaje en primera línea de la pandemia.

When three generations of women return to post-Soviet Europe to care for an ailing patriarch, they face a corrupt healthcare system and discover a society and a past that both links them together and sets them apart.

The Business of Recovery examines the untold billions that are being made off of families in crisis. With little regulation or science, addiction treatment has become a cash cow business that continues to grow while deaths pile up.

An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.

Are paranormal experiences real? Can being 'spiritual' help with the way you feel about death, dying and grief? This British film, from the university that pioneered distance learning through BBC Television, explores themes of spiritual healing and the differing views on life after death.

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

Carmen accompanies a group of women who must travel from the island of Vieques to San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, in order to perform breast biopsies. The long journey is by water and road. Amid many fears and vicissitudes, Carmen confirms once again the need for appropriate medical services for both women and for the rest of the Vieques population.

Documentary about the French public welfare system.

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed.

A 1978 documentary about healthcare services in five locations in Nigeria.

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to treat or accept them is the focus of this documentary narrated by Bill Moyers. The dilemma of being as scared of getting well as of remaining ill and facing a world with no home or job to go to is vividly portrayed as the film follows three patients as they move into rare transition programs.