Health
Disfunction: A Case of the Health Care Blues
Back to 1994 when Bill Clinton was president and his wife Hillary Clinton was in charge of the government’s successful effort to derail the movement for a Single Payer health care system. Marilyn Clements and Diane Lacy Winley of "Health Care: We Gotta Have It" explain how the crisis in health care would best be resolved with a single-payer system. Many Paper Tiger effects including a doctor in an airplane and a surgeon who pulls money out of her patient and puts it into her white coat. More info...
1994 TRT: 28 minutes #250
The Media Blanks Out on Health Care Reform
What's the score on the healthcare reform card? Our tally says Health Insurance Companies - 1, Health Care Coverage - 0. Players from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Health Care We Gotta Have It, labor unions and others give the play-by-play on how the administration went to bat for the big business of the health insurance industry, how the mainstream media declared it safe and how the Single-Payer national health care option got fouled out of the debate. More info...
1994 TRT: 28 minutes #248
Call It What It Is: PTTV West Looks at Domestic Violence and the Media
Why isn’t domestic violence considered to be a national issue? More info...
1993 TRT: 28 minutes #240
The Silence that Silences: Bob Kinney reads Rosilind Solomon
Independent producer Bob Kinney analyzes Rosilind Solomon's photographs of people with AIDS. More info...
1990 TRT: 28 minutes #187
This Is A Sex Ad
An exposé of the Catholic Church's anti-choice public relations campaign. More info...
1990 TRT: 28 minutes #180
Felt Evidence: Investigating Reproductive Technologies
This video examines abortion, surrogate motherhood, and childbirth in the context of new medical industry technologies. "Felt Evidence" looks at how these technologies, dominated and controlled by men, render women invisible in the decision making process, while the child, commodified and dissociated from the mother's body, becomes the only concern. Intercut with short tongue-in-cheek skits on the history of childbirth and a recipe for a baby. More info...
1989 TRT: 28 minutes #155
Just Say Yes: Kathy High Looks at Marketing Legal Drugs
Media artist and publisher Kathy High hosts an eclectic look at the state of pharmaceuticals in the United States and abroad. Great archival footage accompanies her breakdown of the chemical pathology in western medicine as a means of social control and as market commodity. The episode begins with an illumination of the ways that doctors are coerced into prescribing certain drugs by the pill companies, as well as how the refinement and dispensing of controlled drugs has been instrumental in creating the social prestige of medical doctors. More info...
1989 TRT: 29 minutes #161
Simon Watney Says No to Section 28
Simon Watney takes on the Iron Lady and The UK Press on homophobia and the AIDS pandemic. More info...
1988 TRT: 28 minutes #153
Transformer AIDS
At the end of his second term, Ronald Reagan finally addressed the issue of AIDS. Or did he? Certainly not without the homophobia, insensitivity and blatant lack of knowledge which plagues the whole of government around such issues. "Transformer AIDS" looks at the governmental response to AIDS at this crucial point in history, when activism forced the issue onto the public agenda. A sarcastically funny, yet poignant critique engineered spearheaded by critic Bob Kinney. More info...
1988 TRT: 28 minutes #156
PWAC Talks Back
Max Navarre talks about the People With AIDS Coalition's publications. More info...
1987 TRT: 28 minutes #138