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This film explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience.

Trace efforts to develop guidelines for diagnosing mental illness rooted in empirical science rather than dogma. Explore how science and societal factors are deeply entwined with shifting definitions of mental health and mental illness.

After decades in institutions a man with schizophrenia faces violence and death to live on his own. In collaboration with ProPublica, an investigation into a court-ordered effort to move those with mental illness into independent living.

Even in normal times, one in four of us will experience mental health difficulties, but living through a global pandemic has put our mental health under unprecedented strain. This unique study provides a snapshot before and during the pandemic, revealing its shocking impact.

Depression is more than just feeling down occasionally. It’s more intense, and lasts longer. Nearly one in 12 American’s over the age of 20 suffers from it, and women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. Left untreated, depression can lead to suicide.

Young pop culture icon Olly Alexander explores why the gay community is more vulnerable to mental health issues and opens up about his own long-term battles with depression.

Rehtaeh Parsons, a fifteen-year-old student from Nova Scotia, was raped by four schoolboys while drunk at a sleepover. Soon after the vicious online circulation of a photo of Rehtaeh being raped whilst being sick out of a window began. Through the eyes of her parents, this film re-examines these alarming events, which ultimately led to Rehtaeh's suicide. A shocking testament to police indifference, the stigma of sexual assault and the effects of cyber bullying.

This video offers valuable insights into bully and victim psychology, types of bullying, and anti-bullying behavior through penetrating commentary by Erica Perlow of the Chatham County North Carolina Bullying Prevention Task Force and psychologist April Harris-Britt.

Hear Me Now is a documentary featuring compelling stories from dozens who have been affected by bullying in schools and continue to be affected, giving viewers a candid look inside the world of bullying and the inspiration to find hope amid the darkness.

Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social learning, script theory and susceptibility approaches can help understand and explain this evidence

This feature documentary tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence.

Offered through TUBI. No registration is required. An honest look at how many American women face domestic violence on a daily basis. This documentary studies how these toxic relationships persist.

A documentary exploring human nature, information technology, and the need for media literacy to help people trust one another, bring them together and create a more resilient population.

Featuring Elliot Page, this film traces the environmental catastrophes that plague remote, low income, and often Indigenous or Black communities.

An anatomy of poverty as it occurs throughout North America.

Follow the study of 3 homeless Montrealers who experience cycles of addiction and recovery, hope and despair - but rise above the street with a sense of dignity, humanity and community.

8-year-old Isaiah is trying hard to grow up healthy, smart and well-adjusted despite the odds stacked against him.

This film challenges what it means to be intelligent, and points to a future in which people of all abilities can fully participate in higher education, meaningful employment and intimate relationships.

Using vignettes of simulated counseling sessions, this examines what to avoid when talking to clients. The vignettes are exaggerated in order to make a point.

When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, she can do irreparable harm to her baby. Exploring the realities of living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (F.A.S.)