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FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES, TV SERIES AND WEB SERIES
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
Title
Director
Company/Country
Synopsis
Runtime
Where to Watch
(2017)
Directed and produced by Jennifer Brea
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Produced by Lindsey Dryden, Patricia Gillespie, and Alysa Nahmias
Shella Films
United States
Jennifer Brea is about to marry the love of her life when she's struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her "it's all in her head," she turns her camera on herself and her community as she looks for answers and fights for a cure.
97 Minutes
Available on Netflix, DVD/Blu-ray and numerous other digital platforms.
(2015)
Directed by Nicole Castillo and Ryan Prior
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Written by Ryan Prior
United States
A journalist afflicted with the underresearched debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome embarks on a quest to find out why the CDC and medical system have neglected his disease and left millions sidelined from life.
81 Minutes
Available on Prime Video.
Directed and Produced by Josh Biggs and Natalie Boulton
United Kingdom
(2011)
A compassionate and intensely moving expose, witnessing the devastating consequences of psychiatric prejudice and medical ignorance about one of the most prevalent illness of our time.
63 Minutes
or
30 Minutes
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1 Hour Version (Free on Vimeo with promo code VOICES)
Directed by Kim A. Snyder
United States
(2000)
Filmmaker Kim Snyder tells her story of living with ME, and talks to victims and their families, and to physicians and researchers. What's the CDC doing about it; what's it like to have a disease that's not yet understood?
72 Minutes
Available on YouTube.
TV DOCUMENTARIES AND SHORTS
FICTION AND WEB SERIES
SHORT EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CONTENT
RADIO & PODCASTS
BOOKS
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Thirty Years of Disdain: How HHS Buried ME by Mary Dimmock and Matthew Lazell-Fairman
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Osler’s Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic by Hillary Johnson
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
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Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand by Julie Rehmeyer