Nat. Institute of Health: Science in the Cinema

[Ryan Goble]

The National Institute of Health based in Washington D.C. has an interesting (and now long running) series called Science in the Cinema.  The films they select tend to focus on mental and physical health and they have transcripts of all the post-film discussions.  A sampler of the 2011 films / panelists gives you a sense of the foci:

Crazy Heart
Guest Speaker: Judith Arroyo, Ph.D., Minority Health and Health Disparities Coordinator, Office of the Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health
Medical Theme: Alcoholism

The Soloist
Guest Speaker: Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D., Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, Division of Intramural Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
Medical Theme: Schizophrenia

The King's Speech
Guest Speaker: Lana Shekim, Ph.D., Program Director, Speech/Voice, Division of Scientific Programs; and Dennis Drayna, Ph.D., Chief of the Laboratory of Communication Disorders, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health
Medical Themes: Stuttering

Supersize Me
Guest Speaker: Carol H. Pullen, R.N., Ed.D., Professor, Department of Community Based Health, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health
Medical Themes: Obesity Epidemic

You can visit the site using the links above of go to http://science-education.nih.gov/cinema