Obesity Movies

A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is...

A look at the reasons for 160 million Americans being severely overweight.

In an era of activism, filmmaker Connor Luke Simpson enters the world of Fat Acceptance, a provocative social movement that is seeking to change the...

Kövér Lajos (Fatty Louis) tries to lose weight and find a new friend.

Face it: We're fat. With 66 percent of U.S. adults either overweight or obese, our girth is a serious public health issue. Yet many of us still view...

As obesity progresses inexorably, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade investigate the causes of this planetary plague and reveal the fight waged in...

"This is John Robbins' amazing video documentary Diet for a New America (1992) which explores the causes why Americans eat so much meat and what does...

This documentary follows a small number of British people with an incurable genetic disease called Prader-Willi syndrome. This rare disorder makes...

Expert John Wass presents a documentary telling the story of how hormones were discovered and remain at medicine's cutting edge as we try to deal...

A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country...

A Cambridge geneticist dispels misconceptions about living with obesity and explores why the epidemic continues to expand across the UK and America.

Alone in his house, Leo, 12 years old, does not want to go to summer camp. When it is close to the time of departure, a disturbing presence prowls...

The story Jim and Vic, two men who go on separate fitness journeys when they realize they're overweight and at risk for heart disease.

"Bite Size" follows the year long journey of four children struggling with obesity.