A Better Way

Jul 2, 2020

1h 33m

★ 10.0

Overview

On November 7th, 2005, Sandra Smith died at the age of 47 taking 21 different medications. Now her son, Tabor Smith, vows to change the way America thinks about health. Amidst the ongoing opioid crisis, Tabor travels around the country to interview medical experts, political figures, and ordinary people in order to uncover the conspiracy behind America's drug-obsessed healthcare system - and most importantly, find out what can be done to change it. —Dr. Tabor Smith

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Josh Axe

Tabor Smith

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Shilo Harris

Chris Zaino

This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village, following the octogenarian Samaritan in his daily rounds.

4.7

Together

Dec 1, 1971

A mockumentary about sex in America.

8.0

HILLEMAN – A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children

Jun 18, 2016

A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children tells the inspiring story of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, a man with a singular, unwavering focus — to eliminate the diseases of children. From his poverty-stricken youth on the plains of Montana, he came to prevent pandemic flu, develop the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, and invent the first-ever vaccine against human cancer.

1.0

Trinidad

Jun 22, 2008

Fascinating documentary examination of a small Colorado town’s transformation from Wild West outpost to “sex-change capital of the world” which follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the “transsexual mecca.”

5.0

Bethune

Jan 1, 1964

A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure. This hour-long documentary film pieces together his remarkable career.

6.8

What the Health

Mar 16, 2017

Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it.

0.0

The Camelia Boy

Jun 7, 1983

An autobiographical film about Eric M. Nilsson's experiences of Swedish health care and the limits of polite society.

7.0

Bending the Arc

Jan 23, 2017

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.

6.9

Unrest

Oct 20, 2017

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.

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7.5

Les patients

Mar 18, 1990

The story of the last month of work of a popular generalist doctor of Reims. Just before his retirement. The film shows the doctor with his old patients, or alcoholics anonymous he had follow.

10.0

Etugen

Jan 4, 2023

What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these existential questions, this movie invites us to find out an universal wisdom, meeting shamans, healers, yogis, but also philosophers and doctors. From Mongolia plains to the Amazonian forest, it leads us far than we expected at first.

9.0

The Rebel Surgeon

Mar 9, 2017

Portrayal of a surgeon who feels stifled by Swedish bureaucracy and relocates to Ethiopia to practice medicine. In a small field hospital, with limited resources, he uses anything at hand to help the patients.

6.8

JFK: What The Doctors Saw

Jan 1, 2023

Unsettling medical details on the JFK assassination are disclosed by seven doctors who were in the ER during a futile effort to save his life in 1963.

0.0

Predator on the Reservation

Feb 12, 2019

FRONTLINE and The Wall Street Journal investigate the decades-long failure to stop a government doctor accused of sexually abusing Native American boys for years, and examine how he moved from reservation to reservation despite warnings.

6.5

Our Father

May 11, 2022

After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

6.6

The First Wave

Nov 19, 2021

When Covid-19 hit New York City in 2020, filmmaker Matthew Heineman gained unique access to one of New York’s hardest-hit hospital systems. The resulting film focuses on the doctors, nurses, and patients on the frontlines during the “first wave” from March to June 2020. Their distinct storylines each serve as a microcosm to understand how the city persevered through the worst pandemic in a century

5.3

Phases of Matter

Jan 25, 2020

Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.

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