Cancer – Film Series:
A Chinese proverb says that a picture is worth a thousand words. Taking that metaphor a step further, I would like to suggest, a film is worth a thousand pictures, and a series, well, you decide how many. In other words, while reading books and papers, and watching lectures can take your understanding of cancer far, you can go much farther by watching high quality documentaries on the science and human experience of cancer as well as the societal influences that shape our body of knowledge and our practice of cancer medicine and prevention.
1. Ken Burns – Emperor of All Maladies, Part I, II, and III
PBS Documentary - Home Page
Available on Amazon Prime: Emperor of All Maladies
Available via the MSU Library:
2. The Tobacco Conspiracy (French-Canadian documentary)
YouTube: The Tobacco Conspiracy (Full film)
Also:
Robert Proctor: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
E-Cigarettes : Welcome Back, Big Tobacco | CBC The Fifth Estate
3. Pink Ribbons, Inc.
http://firstrunfeatures.com/pinkribbonsinc/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QPZfcYTUaA
Available on Amazon Prime: Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Available via MSU Library: Pink Ribbons, Inc.
4. The History of Asbestos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yz4H_7JFQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLlqLztLeo
5. Rachel Carson: She set out to save a species… us.
American Experience, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rachel-carson/
Available on Amazon Prime: Rachel Carson - American Experience
Available via MSU Library: Rachel Carson - American Experience
6. A Sense of Wonder – On the work and life of Rachel Carson
7. Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
http://www.livingdownstream.com
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UsmBqYpwo
Available via MSU Library: Living Downstream
8. A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For A Living Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pUREoZWILg
Available on Amazon Prime: A Fierce Green Fire (full film)
Available via MSU Library: A Fierce Green Fire
9. Company Town (2016)
The story of an intense election campaign to determine the fate of San Francisco, the city at the epicenter of the digital revolution.
https://www.companytownfilm.com/
Trailer: https://www.companytownfilm.com/trailer
Available via MSU Library: Company Town
10. Jim Allison: Breakthrough
PBS Independent Lens
In 2018, Jim Allison won the Nobel Prize for discovering the immune system’s role in defeating cancer, but his lengthy journey to get there was filled with barriers and criticism.
Full film (PBS subscription required): Jim Allison: Breakthrough
11. Merchants of Doubt (2014)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ii9zGFDtc
Full film on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpAehajGu30
Available via MSU Library: Merchants of Doubt
12. Capital in the 21st Century
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reyy9ASpMSc
Available on Amazon Prime: Capital in the 21st century
Selected additional suggestions:
1. HOME - 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
2. Food, Inc.: How industrial food is making us sicker, fatter and poorer : and what you can do about
http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/
https://watchdocumentaries.com/food-inc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHJiNC_7wuw
Full movie » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq24hITFTY
Companion book (eBook via MSU Library)
3. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
4. George Lakoff: "The Brain and its Politics"
Talk at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, June 2008
More info » https://georgelakoff.com/
6. Chief Oren Lyons et al.: "We Are All One"
7. Greed - A Fatal Desire
Deutsche Welle TV Documentary: Greed
8. The Lottery of Birth
9. Four Horsemen (Janson Media, 2014)
Rather than level blame for the global financial crisis of 2008 and the growing disparity in wealth on individual leaders, organizations, or incidents, Four horsemen raises questions about the validity of the modern economic system as a whole and presents solutions to its problems.
10. Inequality for All: Robert Reich
"We make the rules of the economy - and we have the power to change those rules." - Robert Reich
A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich - UC Berkeley professor, best - selling author, and Clinton cabinet member - as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves.
https://www.inequalityforall.com
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9REdcxfie3M
Full film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_LkMWP2Q2A
Available via MSU Library: Inequality for All
More info » http://robertreich.org/