Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut

6.7

2024

80 mins

Documentary

Delve into the digestive system with this lighthearted and informative documentary that demystifies the role gut health plays in our overall well-being.

What the Health

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it.

That Sugar Film

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 6.9

One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.

Forks Over Knives

Year : 2011Rating : ⭐ 7.2

Examines the profound claim that most; if not all; of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled; or even reversed; by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Cameras follow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments - while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.

Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Through revealing interviews with experts and victims' families, this gripping documentary examines the problem of deadly foodborne illness in the US.

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.0

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

Inside the Mind of a Dog

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Embark on a delightful journey into the world of dogs in this documentary that reveals scientific and emotional insights about our lovable BFFs.

Fantastic Fungi

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.3

A vivid journey into the mysterious subterranean world of mycelium and its fruit— the mushroom. A story that begins 3.5 billion years ago, fungi makes the soil that supports life, connecting vast systems of roots from plants and trees all over the planet, like an underground Internet. Through the eyes of renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, professor of forest ecology Suzanne Simard, best selling author Michael Pollan, food naturalist Eugenia Bone and others, we experience the power, beauty and complexity of the fungi kingdom.

The Biggest Little Farm

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.6

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.

Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 6.3

In this documentary, wealthy entrepreneur Bryan Johnson puts his body and fortune on the line to defy aging and extend his life beyond all known limits.

Deepsea Challenge 3D

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Described as being a film about determination, danger and the ocean’s greatest depths, James Cameron's "Deepsea Challenge 3D" tells the story of Cameron’s journey to fulfill his boyhood dream of becoming an explorer. The movie offers a unique insight into Cameron's world as he makes that dream reality – and makes history – by becoming the first person to travel solo to the deepest point on the planet.

Naqoyqatsi

Year : 2002Rating : ⭐ 6.2

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 7.8

A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 7.2

Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conceived and created. Witness firsthand what it took to pull off the show’s pulse-pounding action set pieces, and discover how iconic characters from the pages of Marvel Comics such as Kate Bishop were adapted and brought to life for the six-episode series.

Super Size Me

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 6.7

Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.

Powaqqatsi

Year : 1988Rating : ⭐ 7.2

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

A Brief History of Time

Year : 1991Rating : ⭐ 7.2

Partly adapted from cosmologist Stephen Hawking's popular book about his theories of the universe, this in-depth documentary also presents Hawking's daily life as he deals with the ALS that renders him virtually immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, former classmates and peers are interviewed about not only his theories but the man himself.

Howard

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.

Elstree 1976

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.2

A documentary about ten very different lives connected by having appeared onscreen wearing masks or helmets in Star Wars.

Dancing with the Birds

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.8

Some of the world's most majestic birds display delightfully captivating mating rituals, from flashy dancing to flaunting their colorful feathers.