When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he wouldn’t live to see his 25th birthday. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes.
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, do...
What happens when a group of Finns travel to a tiny village in Benin to participate in a vaccination...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we ...
Stefan Nilsson chose to end his life on May 25, 2023, just months after being diagnosed with ALS. Th...
Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Franci...
Dying for the Other is a video triptych, documenting the lives of mice used in breast cancer researc...
Martyna returns to her family home for a three-week “vacation” to take care of her mother, who is su...
With the world increase in spillover diseases from animals Scientists trace outbreaks such as the Zi...
Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was som...
The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past...
Kathryn Calder, one of the vocalists behind the Influential and successful indie band The New Pornog...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
A respected documentary maker hears from a friend that his long term depression has been helped afte...
Eating, 2nd Edition: Introducing The RAVE Diet presents graphic evidence of how animal foods are not...
A documentary focused on infectious disease outbreaks.
Disney animated educational film about staying safe from disease.
It was called the Black Death, a disease that started in the 14th century, and swept across Europe w...