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Showing 1 - 10 of 17 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Cancer
Before Flying Back to the Earth
Building on the long earned trust of the children towards the camera, filmmaker Arunas Matelis skilfully applies a simple but highly effective narrative and thus manages to create an extraordinary film that avoids sentimentality but stays deeply moving.
First Hand Films | 2005 | 52 minutes
The Body Beautiful
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond
Women Make Movies | 1992 | 23 minutes
Cheshire, Ohio
Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 75 minutes
Community Voices
A multi-cultural array of patients, clinicians, and other healthcare workers explore the many ways that differences in culture, race and ethnicity affect health and the delivery of healthcare services.
The Fanlight Collection | 2001 | 69 minutes
Complicit
A benzene-poisoned, Foxconn factory worker takes his fight against the global smartphone industry from his hospital bed in China to the international stage.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 89 minutes
Dance Me to The End of Time
Award-winning filmmaker Melanie Chait documents the last four years of her life-partner, outspoken lesbian, artist and theatre director, Nancy Diuguid's life, as she fights breast cancer.
Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 80 minutes
The Good Breast
Explores the cultural and emotional roots of the loss of the breast through the intimate stories of four breast cancer patients and their surgeons.
Icarus Films | 2016 | 94 minutes
Hold Your Breath
A devout Muslim immigrant faces possible death from stomach cancer but cultural and linguistic confusions complicate his treatment in an American hospital.
The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 58 minutes
Illusions of Control
A riveting meditation on resilience in the face of disaster, Illusions of Control unfolds in landscapes irrevocably shaped by human attempts to dominate them.
GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 87 minutes
Kenbe La: Until we Win
Set in the lush Haitian countryside as well as the icy landscapes of Quebec, Will Prosper’s documentary Kenbe la: Until We Win chronicles the inspiring journey of Alain Philoctète, an artist and activist who dreams of developing a permaculture project in his native country even as he fights an ongoing battle with cancer.
National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 83 minutes
