Your Favorite Documentaries

[homoe]

[homoe]

If you're a movie buff you'll love this....

[homoe]

"Lunch, " a documentary written, produced and directed by Donna Kanter

[AlexF]

Originally Posted by homoe

This is an excellent documentary; I have shown this multiple times to students.

[homoe]

Rented and watched this on Prime this past week-end. LOVED it......

[Orema]

WARNING: TRIGGERS

A documentary short exploring the conversations during end-of-life care with pediatric Palliative care specialist Dr. Nadia Tremonti. Palliative also highlights the caretakers and families working with Dr. Tremonti. Filmed in Detroit at the Children's Hospital of Michigan over several years 'Palliative' aims to introduce this vital area of care struggling to overcome the stigmas of death and dying.

**Winner** People's Choice Award (Best Short Film) - Denver Film Festival
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Here’s the trailer:


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Here’s a link to view the full documentary at the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/o...gtype=Homepage

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And here is the accompanying article at the NYTimes:

Dying in Your Mother’s Arms

A palliative care doctor on finding a “good death” for children in the worst situations.

If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better.

It’s not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works to ensure that terminally ill children receive quality end-of-life care. Palliative care is sometimes misunderstood to shorten life expectancy, but it’s a method that increases quality of life, improves symptom burden and decreases medical costs. We follow Dr. Tremonti in the short documentary above as she works to make death less medical and more human. In the process she asks a critical question: When a child is terminally ill, how can we make the end of life a better one?

Video by John Beder
Mr. Beder is a filmmaker.

[VintageFemme]

I have no words for how much respect and admiration I have for this woman. She is every little girls role model and every woman's mentor. She is brilliant, beautiful, strong and filled with a wisdom only a life of storied experience can give you. This documentary about her life and her accomplishments, experience both personal and professional, and everything inbetween is just gorgeous. It's also heart breaking, devastating and frightening. I literally cheered at certain moments watching it and cried during others. It's so well made and I can't recommend it enough. #ImStillWithHer

[Kätzchen]

I found this documentary fairly interesting.

There is an elderly woman who lives down the road from my sister-in-law. Her husband died a few years ago, but we've noticed that she has a compulsive disorder and that she is a hoarder (example: her house is stuffed with so much stuff that she lives in her car, and her car too is stuffed as full as her house). It's truly sad. We made an inquiry on her behalf, with a local social worker who works with the elderly. She's probably not ever going to be healed of her secretive shopping and hoarding disorder, but I came across this the other night and watched it, hoping to better understand the condition (obsessive/compulsive disorders).

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

Re-watched this and IF you're dealing with an aging parent, sibling, etc this might give you an idea or two on how to bring a bit of sunshine into their life.