1. Blue Kangling (Blue Kangling)
Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths
2. Wake Up
Jonas Elrod woke up one day with the ability to see and hear angels, demons and ghosts. Filmed over the course of three years, this documentary follows Jonas and his girlfriend as they try to understand the phenomenon.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
3. Children of the Revolution
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
4. Mark Rothstein's World of Rope Jumping
Mark is accompanied by five dynamic rope jumpers from the BOHOPPERS precision jump rope team, based in Florida. Mark's lead and Bo Bohannon's direction , make the 40 skills detailed and easy to follow. In 1996, this video was selected by the American Heart Association as its exclusive educational video for the 1996-1997 Jump Rope for Heart National Program. Mark recommends this Original Instructional video as a prerequisite for Videos 2, 3 & 4 in his series. Please contact Mark for information on his World Tour, professional jump ropes, and other videos in his series available on VHS and DVD.
5. Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar
The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath , published in February 1963, shortly before her death.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
6. Raději dříve (Raději dříve)
(Raději dříve)
7. Daleko od stromu (Daleko od stromu)
(Daleko od stromu)
8. The Bridge
The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - the world's most popular suicide destination. Interviews with the victims' loved ones describe their lives and mental health.
It has an average vote of 6.76 on TMDB.
9. Parrot
This 3-minute short film by Iain Delavan was created at a dark time in his life. In his usual abstract and expressive style, Delavan depicts an unsettling scene of a character committing self-harm, set against the backdrop of an interpolation of Lizzy McAlpine's 'doomsday'.
10. OPERATION: Emotional Freedom - The Answer
A documentary featuring the successful treatment and follow-up of a group of volunteer veterans and their families diagnosed with complex PTSD. The film tracks the history of six combat veterans from the Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq War conflicts beginning with their exposure to an alternative to drug and talk therapy and over the course of two years after their treatments. Testimonials from family members, friends and experts in psychology and the treatment of post traumatic stress are combined in this answer to the epidemic that is PTSD. The film has already been presented to both the U.S. House of Representative and Senate Committees of Veterans' Affairs and screened to veterans and therapists around the world.
11. The Definition of Insanity
The Miami-Dade Community Mental Health Project comes to life in this documentary, following a team of dedicated public servants working through the courts to steer people with mental illness on a path from incarceration to recovery.
12. How to Cook Your Life
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
13. The Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecca," the "Supreme Court of Medicine," and the "place for hope where there is no hope." The Mayo Clinic began in 1883 as an unlikely partnership between the Sisters of Saint Francis and a country doctor named William Worrall Mayo after a devastating tornado in rural Minnesota. Since then, it has grown into an organization that treats more than a million patients a year from all 50 states and 150 countries. Dr. Mayo had a simple philosophy he imparted to his sons Will and Charlie: "the needs of the patient come first." They wouldn't treat diseases...they would treat people. In a world where healthcare delivery is typically fragmented among individual specialties, the Mayo Clinic practices a multi-specialty, team-based approach that has, from its beginnings, created a culture that thrives on collaboration.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Super Size Me
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.
It has an average vote of 6.763 on TMDB.
15. Garudas
After accidentally becoming the caretaker of a robin’s egg, I reach out to my grandmother for guidance. As we await the fate of the fragile, pale blue egg, we call from across the world to birdwatch together—a meditation on nature, nurture, and letting go.
16. Trials To Triumph: The Documentary
Follows the story of Freddie Stevenson from his meteoric rise through high school and college football to a chaotic life afterwards that led him to reinvent himself and rise up all over again. This documentary connects similar stories of struggle and redemption from motivational speaker Tony Gaskins, "General Hospital" star Maurice Benard, NFL and CFL player Delvin Breaux, and more. These stories are raw and uncut, just as they want to to tell them.
17. God Knows Where I Am
Well-educated, New Hampshire mother, Linda Bishop, was determined to stay free of the mental health system after her early release from a 3 year commitment to New Hampshire State Hospital. Instead, she became a prisoner of her own mind, a fate which she documents in one of the most evocative and chilling accounts of mental illness and of our systemic failure to protect those suffering from it.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
18. Untold: Breaking Point
Under pressure to continue a winning tradition in American tennis, Mardy Fish faced mental health challenges that changed his life on and off the court.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
19. Food Choices
This documentary explores the impact that food choices have on people's health, the health of our planet and on the lives of other living species. And also discusses several misconceptions about food and diet.
It has an average vote of 7.157 on TMDB.
20. Weltreise mit Buddha (Weltreise mit Buddha)
The Odd Monk is a personal journey through modern day Buddhism. German first time Filmmaker Jesco Puluj travels around the world, meeting a variety of monks and nuns to discover the essence of Buddhism.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
