Research Guides: One Health: Video Resources

Introduction

Films and documentaries can be an effective and accessible way to learn about issues or start discussions in the One Health sphere. Here, we have selected some of our top picks from the Library's Films On Demand collection. Films on Demand hosts films across a wide range of topics, so please feel free to explore the collection! Each video is accompanied by a transcript and is captioned.

Age of Nature Series

The Age of Nature Series explores humanity's relationship with wildlife and nature with scientists and conservationists examining solutions for ecological restoration.

Awakening
2020, 55 minutes
Our awareness of Nature is growing. As we discover its role in our modern world and realize its true value, action is being taken to protect and restore it. This story is told by contributors who reveal the awakening of a new era. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
Understanding
2020, 55 minutes
A new understanding of the way Nature works is helping us find some ways of fixing it. As our understanding deepens, we realize that everything is connected, and by helping to restore Nature we all benefit, humans and animals alike. PBS Distribution.

Power Trip Series

Power Trip: The Story of Energy is a six-part documentary series that examines how energy is embedded into our modern way of life, through our water, food, wealth, cities, transportation, and war.

Food
2020, 55 minutes
PBS Distribution
How do we harness energy to feed our growing population without the downsides of industrialization? FOOD traces a centuries-long journey across Europe, Asia, and the United States to show us the energy it takes to bring us our food.

Plastic Wars

Plastic Wars
2020, 54 minutes
Frontline/PBS
Did the plastic industry use recycling to sell more plastic? With the industry expanding like never before and the crisis of ocean pollution growing,this film investigates the fight over the future of plastics.

Something in the Air

Something in the Air
2019, 54 minutes
PBS Distribution
Pollution is killing tens of thousands of people every day around the world. Cities across Asia and Europe have had to shut down and stop traffic to manage “Airpocalypse” pollution events when the air is unsafe for the people who live there. But air pollution is a major killer everywhere, even places we think of as safe. Pollution causes a range of respiratory diseases, and even short exposure can change how our DNA functions. This film explores questions about the most precious resource we have—air.

Flint's Deadly Water

Flint's Deadly Water
2019, 54 minutes
Frontline
Investigators expose the deadly toll from the Flint water crisis. A two-year Frontline investigation uncovers the roots and extent of a deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak during the water crisis, and how officials failed to stop it.

Ozone Hole

Ozone Hole - How We Saved the Planet
2019, 56 minutes
PBS Distribution
The forgotten story of the hole in the ozone layer -and how the world came together to fix it. The scientists and politicians who persuaded Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to take action reveal how the planetary problem was solved.