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Enjoy your lunch hour with us!

Come view one of the many extraordinary films from our library.

The Global Perspectives Film Series is one of our many continuing educational activities. Our goal is to provide the TTUHSC and local community with information about global, national, and local health and social issues.

Through the film series, attendees will also gain knowledge about various heritage celebrations, historic events, and current trends in health care. They will also receive insight into the customs, culture, and history of other countries and people.

Our list of Fall 2024 films to be featured is available here.

This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is necessary.

Upcoming Global Perspectives Film

Addicted to Life

Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024
Time: noon
via Zoom (LINK)

Belgian triathlon champion Marieke Vervoort’s time is running out. At 29, paralyzed from the waist down, a debilitating, chronic illness she has had for 15 years has begun to take its toll. As Marieke’s strength falters and her pain increases, she decides to take control by signing papers to die by the controversial procedure of medical aid-in-dying (MAID), legal in her home country. Liberated and empowered by having the legal permission to die, Marieke rediscovers the freedom and thrill of competition. Marieke’s acceptance of death becomes an affirmation of life.

For more information about the film, including a trailer, please visit the following website: https://vimeo.com/708888448

If you wish to be added to our Global Health events notification list, please email us at globalhealth@ttuhsc.edu.

Previous Films

May - Proud
April - The Disruptors
March - McCullin
February - Wisdom Gone Wild
January - Reckonings

December - Ask the Sexpert
November - Manzanar Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
October - Building the American Dream
September - The S Word
August - Global Junk Food

January - Digital Addicts
February - Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
March - The Judge
April - Inventing Tomorrow
May - A Place to Breathe

September - No Mas Bebes
October - Living On a Dollar
November - As We Forgive
December - Being Mortal

September - College Behind Bars Part 2
October - The R Word
November - Girl Wrestler
December - When Women Come Marching Home

August - John Lewis: Get in the way
September - We Will Not Die Like Dogs, Sons of Lwala
October - Medicine Woman
November - Freedom Writers: Stories from the heart
December - Influenza 1918

January - Era of Megafires
February - Under the Kudzu

September - Open Heart
October - Open Heart, Dawnland
November - Run Like The Devil
December - Resilience

September - Alone Through Iran: 1144 Miles of Trust
October - It's a Girl
November - My Vietnam, Your Iraq
December - Human {Part 2}

January - Deaf Jam
February - Africa Rising
March - Fly Girls
April - Clinica de Migrantes
May - Human {Part 1}

September - Mind Game
October - Hidden Pictures
November - On Hold
December - In Whose Honor?

January - Pleasure Unwoven: An Explanation of the Brain Disease
February - The White Helmets
April - No Mas Bebes
May - Unnatural Causes

September - The Boys of '36
October - Abrazos
November - FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
December - Wilhemina's War

January - The Trouble With Chicken
February - More Than a Month
March - Poor Us
April - The Widow Maker
May - The Released

September - The Right to Heal
September - Revolutionary Medicine
November - My Father, My Brother, and Me
December - Escaping ISIS

June - Surviving Ebola
July - Being Mortal
August - A Path Appears: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

January - Not My Life
February - Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP
March - Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
April - The Autism Enigma
May - No Woman, No Cry

September - Saving Face: A Journey to Heal. A Fight for Justice.
October - A Doctor of My Own: The First Medical Students of Namibia
November - Silenced Voices: Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile
December - A Closer Walk

June - Killer Typhoon: The Aftermath of Cyclone Haiyan
July - The Vaccine War
August - True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers

January - MSNBC Undercover, Sex Slaves: Texas
February - Black and Blue
March - Survival: The Deadly Combination
April - The Final Inch
May - War of the Worlds

September - Tales of Masked Men
October - Honoring a Father's Dream: Sons of Lwala
November - Poor Kids
December - 30 Years From Here

June - Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment
July - The Great Fever
August - My Vietnam, Your Iraq

September - Be Good, Smile Pretty
October - Women, War, and Peace: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
November - Please Vote for Me
December - Lives That Changed the World: Nelson Mandela

June - My Father, My Brother and Me
July - Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
August - The Other Side of Immigration

January - Lesson on Living with Morrie Schwartz
February - The Morgan Lacrosse Story
March - Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
April - Rx for Survival: Back to the Basics
May - Shadow Voices: Finding Hope in Mental Illness

September - The Longoria Affair
October - Rx for Survival-A Global Health Challenge: Delivering the Goods
November - Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
December - Occupied Minds

September - Betty Ford: The Real Deal
October - As We Forgive
November - Hold Your Breath
December - Partners of the Heart

September - A Class Apart
October - The Released
November - True Whispers
December - A Walk to Beautiful

June - The Other Angels
July - The Three Rabbis
August - China's Lost Girls

January - King: A Man of Peace in a Time of War
February - Zora's Roots: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
March - The Gender Tango
April - The Power of Forgiveness
May - Most Honorable Son

Most films shown as part of the film series can be checked out through the OGH library. Visit the Resource Library web page for more information.