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Twisted

by Laurel Chiten

Twisted reveals the agonies and challenges of dystonia, a neurological disorder that forces muscles into abnormal — often painful — movements or postures.

Independent Lens

The Waiting Room

by Peter Nicks and Linda Davis

The Waiting Room is a cinema verité portrait of a California city's public safety-net hospital as it struggles to handle patient overload in a swooning economy and a constantly shifting landscape of health care policy.

Independent Lens

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The Way We Get By

by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly

On call 24/7 for the past six years, three senior citizens have made history by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine.

POV

We Were Here

by David Weissman

When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a community, but also brought people together in inspiring and moving ways to support and care for one another and to fight for dignity and a cure.

Independent Lens

Welcome to the World

by Brian Hill

Welcome to the World asks: Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor?

Global Perspectives Collection, Women and Girls Lead, Global Voices, Why Poverty?

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When I Walk

by Jason DaSilva and AXS Lab Inc.

When 25-year-old filmmaker Jason DaSilva was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he didn't wallow in gloom. He picked up a camera and set out to inspire people.

POV

When Medicine Got It Wrong

by Katie Cadigan and Laura Murray

In the 1970s, psychiatrists routinely blamed schizophrenia in children on bad parenting. But a grassroots movement among parents revolutionized the way scientists understand and treat the disease.

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