20 movies like Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer?, ordered by similarity : Sicko(2007), Amy(2015), Super Size Me(2004), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Tickling Giants(2016), An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power(2017), Indestructible(2007), The C Word(2016), Birthright: A War Story(2017), I Am Not Your Negro(2016), Let's Get Lost(1989), Second Skin(2008) ...
Documentary
2016
81 Minutes
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The ethical dilemma of opioid prescriptions is examined through the story of Dr. William Hurwitz, a preeminent doctor sentenced to 25 years in prison for overprescribing painkillers.
Documentary
USA
2007
113 Minutes
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A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories including shotgun deaths.
Documentary, Biography, Music
2015
128 Minutes
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Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
Documentary
USA
2004
98 Minutes
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While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
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It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Documentary
USA
2016
111 Minutes
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While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.
Documentary
USA
2017
100 Minutes
Bonni Cohen Cory Booker George W. Bush Bill Clinton Al Franken Chris Hayes Anne Hidalgo François Hollande
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A decade after An Inconvenient Truth (2006) brought climate change to the heart of popular culture, the follow-up shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.
Documentary
USA
2007
118 Minutes
Josh Byer Oliver Sacks Ben Byer John Byer Rebeccah Rush
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Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, film-maker Ben Byer starts documenting his life. One of the most intimate and powerful films you will encounter on a degenerative illness.
Documentary
USA
2016
89 Minutes
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A personal, important, surprising, and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention.
Documentary
USA
2017
105 Minutes
Michele Goodwin Lynn Paltrow Dr. David Grimes Carole Joffe Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas Andrea F. Friedman
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Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
Documentary
Switzerland|France|Belgium|USA
2016
95 Minutes
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Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Documentary
USA
1989
119 Minutes
Chet Baker Carol Baker Ruth Young Diane Vavra Dick Bock Lawrence Trimble
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Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from Baker's ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2008
94 Minutes
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An intimate, fascinating look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging, hugely popular genre of computer games.
Documentary
USA|UK
2003
107 Minutes
Ross McElwee Charleen Swansea
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North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. Bright Leaves describes a journey taken across the social, economic, and psychological tobacco terrain of North ... See full summary »
Documentary, Action, Drama
Denmark|USA
2006
88 Minutes
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Documents the violent lives of gang leaders in Haiti's worst slum, focusing on two brothers loyal to then-President Aristide.
Documentary
USA|Belgium|Canada|France|Ireland|Mexico|Peru|Poland|Turkey|UK
2016
95 Minutes
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The story of the vaping revolution and tragic corruption leading to a billion deaths around the world.
Documentary
USA
2000
73 Minutes
Peter Sillen Tim Campion Brian Halloran Coleman Lewis Bill Taft
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This highly unorthodox documentary follows the crooked path of Benjamin (no last name). He lives in a hidden neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia called "Cabbagetown." Drag-queen, speed-freak, ... See full summary »
Documentary
UK|USA
2014
105 Minutes
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. Seymour Amster Laverne Peters Margaret Prescod
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Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
Documentary, Drama, History
2005
75 Minutes
Elie Lison Roger May Steve Driesen Tshilombo Imhotep Annette Kelly
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In the late 19th century, King Leopold II uses the Congo -- part of his newly established kingdom, the Belgian Free State -- as a rubber and ivory mecca and uses troops to brutally dispose of anyone who refuses to retrieve the valuable materials.
Documentary, Drama, History, Biography, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2011
90 Minutes
Bill Weber Paul Boneberg Ed Wolf Daniel Goldstein Guy Clark
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A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.
Documentary
USA
2011
107 Minutes
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In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person's request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had ... See full summary »