Top 10 Health Documentaries Of All Time

James Colquhoun JAMES COLQUHOUN

At Food Matters we love sharing powerful lifesaving messages with as many people as possible, this is why we created Food Matters in the first place. We wouldn't be doing our job if we didn't continue to share all of these films with you!  

 
This list is in no particular order and is based on most watched from our Food Matters Tribe. We suggest watching them all! 
 

Frank Ferrante is a 54-year-old Sicilian from Brooklyn living in San Francisco. A lover of life, great food, beautiful women and a good laugh, Frank is also a drug addict, morbidly obese, pre-diabetic, and fighting Hepatitis C. He's estranged from his daughter, single, and struggling with depression. Frank knows that life can be better than this and is looking for a way out.  Purchase your own copy now!
 
 
Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide 'Sickness Industry', and exposes a growing body of scientific evidence proving that nutritional therapy can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than most conventional medical treatments. Watch on FMTV now!
 
 
 
 
Food, Inc. is a powerful, startling indictment of industrial food production, revealing truths about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here. Find out more here.
 
 
 
 
With doctors and conventional medicines unable to help long-term, Joe turns to the only option left, the body's ability to heal itself. He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days. Across 3,000 miles Joe has one goal in mind: To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle. Watch on FMTV now!
 
 
 
The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse Type II Diabetes and change lives. Watch on FMTV now!
 
 
 

Hungry For Change exposes shocking secrets the diet, weight-loss and food industry don't want you to know about; deceptive strategies designed to keep you coming back for more. Find out what's keeping you from having the body and health you deserve, and how to escape the diet trap forever. Watch on FMTV now!
 
 
 

Forks Over Knives utilizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archival footage. The film features leading experts on health, examines the question “why we don’t know,” and tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years. Find out more here.
 
 
 

Through highly personal interviews and 50 years of beautifully textured footage, filmmaker Taggart Siegel shares Farmer John’s haunting and humorous odyssey, capturing what it means to be wildly different in a rural community. Watch the film here on FMTV!
 
 
 

Our mission is to bring this ancient healing knowledge to the people who need it most – while at the same time, honoring the indigenous communities that still hold this sacred healing wisdom. The regions of the world where this medicine still exists are being destroyed at an alarming pace and these tribes are in need of all the support they can get. Find out more here.  
 
 
 

After a number of cancer patients, who were diagnosed as terminal, shared their stories and their medical records with Garrett, it became abundantly clear that, contrary to the disinformation campaign spear-headed by the multi-billion dollar medical and pharmaceutical industry, a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist – and has existed for over 80 years! Garrett’s mission now is to tell the world. Watch on FMTV now!
 
 
 
It has been through our personal experience and passion to share these films that FMTV was born! A place where we can access and share this vital information!

Now you can watch all your favorite inspiring documentaries, expert interviews and recipe videos in one place and share them with those you love. Go on, dig into a new documentary and expand your mind... start a juice cleanse... or learn how to make some fermented veggies at home! Find out more about FMTV here.
  

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James Colquhoun is the filmmaker behind Food Matters, Hungry For Change, and Transcendence Seasons 1 & 2 and founder of Food Matters and FMTV. Along with Laurentine ten Bosch, James founded the Food Matters community following the release of the 2008 documentary, giving people the tools (films, books, articles, and guided programs) to take charge of their own health. From here, FMTV was born! It was designed as a place where you can access vital information by watching all of your favorite inspiring documentaries, expert interviews, & recipe videos in one place, and in early 2020 FMTV found it's new home on Gaia.