Documentaries and Miscellaneous

This page focuses on edu-tainment videos, those that can help to increase your situational awareness, health, safety, social attraction, wisdom, and confidence.

Multiple Casualty Events

• Disaster! (Emmy Award-winning Documentary.)
• The Loma Prieta, CA, Earthquake, 1989.
• Killer Quake! (Northridge, CA, 1994.)
• The Goiânia, Brasil, Nuclear Accident.
• Texas City, Texas, Refinery Explosion.
• 2005 London Bombings.
• West, Texas, Fertilizer Explosion.
• I-35W Bridge Collapse and Response.
• The Boyd Street Pot Shop Fire (Wine-0 Nine-0 vs. Godzilla.)

Motorcycles and a Rocket Sled

• Cases From the Races.
• More Cases From the Races.
• Crack the Chest.
• The Fastest Ambulance.
• The Fastest Man on Earth.

Search and Rescue

• Search and Rescue (Utah County SAR Volunteers.)
• Cache County Search and Rescue Dive team (Water SAR Basics.)
• Pararescue Diving Operations (USAF SAR.)
• US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers.
• How Army Medics Are Trained To Save Lives In Combat.
• Truth Duty Valour Episode 413 (Canadian SAR Techs.)
• Inside Combat Rescue (Afghanistan, starts at 00:25.)
• Rescue at 14,200 Feet (The Colorado Hoist Rescue Team.)
• Docs with Glocks (Tactical EMS.)
• SAR Volunteers to the Rescue (San Diego County.)
• Worker Loses Consciousness in Manure Spreader Tank (Confined Space.)
• Two Die in Manure Spreader Tank (Confined Space.)
• Urban Search & Rescue (Los Angeles, 1995.)

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)

CERT is a good way for someone not wired for EMS to contribute to emergency response. ICSAVE's downloadable videos (notably No. 7) provide a good overview of the subject and should be of value to new EHPs. All but the first of the following links skip long and repetitive intros.

• 1 - Disaster Preparedness.
• 2 - CERT Organization Course.
• 3 - Disaster Medical Operations Part 1.
• 4 - Disaster Medical Operations Part 2.
• 5 - Disaster Psychology Course.
• 6 - Fire Safety and Utility Controls.
• 7 - Light Search and Rescue Operations.
• 8 - Terrorism and CERT.

Search and Rescue Dogs

• Turning Shelter Dogs Into SAR Dogs.
• Arizona Search Dogs.
• Maine Search and Rescue Dogs.
• Canine Search and Rescue.
• Swiss Rescue Dogs (1960s.)

Ambo-work in Developing/Foreign Nations

• The Lifesavers of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.)
• Life and Death in Vientiane (Laos.)
• Driving Life - The Ambulance Drivers of Karachi (Pakistan.)
• Kabul Ambulance (Afghanistan.)
• Mumbai - Ambulance Start Up.
• Nepal Ambulance Service.
• Fighting the Ebola Outbreak, Street by Street in Liberia.
• Heal First - EMS in Nigeria - Gerber Ambulance.
• Somalia Ambulances Public Services.
• Ambulance Heroes Saving Lives in Somalia.
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Kenya.
• The Moped Ambulance (Burkina Faso.)
• Dutch Bicycle Ambulances Saves Lives in Malawi.
• Red Zone Paramedics (Cape Town, South Africa.)

Hospital Ships

• Africa Mercy (Congo mission.)
• Africa Mercy (Cameroon mission.)
• Africa Mercy (Togo mission.)
• History of Mercy Ships (2011.)
• Mercy Ships:The Next Chapter.
• Papa Francisco (Amazon rivership.)
• USNS Comfort.
• Ark Peace (People's Republic of China.)
• Ship of Life (Bengali Hospital Barge.)

Epidemiological Investigations

Epidemiological detective videos are an entertaining way to raise awareness of infectious diseases. We will start with ad-free documentaries about two evidence-based medicine pioneers.

• Ignaz Semmelweis (Audio only.)
• John Snow (Cholera breakthrough.)

• Mystery Outbreak Strikes in the Night (Legionellosis.)
• Investigating an Outbreak in New York (St. Louis Encephalitis.)
• Investigating an Outbreak Amongst Minneapolis Children (Shigella.)
• Cases of Tainted Blood in New Mexico Prove Lethal (Contaminated L-tryptophan.)
• New Infection that Strikes only Children? (Bacterial Meningitis.)
• Something's Attacking these Carolina Fishermen (Pfiesteria.)
• Teenage Girl Killed Suddenly by Hidden Disease (Cryptococcosis Fungus.)
• Rare Bacterial Disease Ravages Island Resort (Dengue Fever.)
• Woman Collapses on Bus from Severe Flu (Toxic Shock Syndrome.)
• Airborne Bacteria Infects Infant Child in her Home (Stachybotrys Mold.)

Gresham College Lectures

Gresham College in London, England, is a non-degree granting institution of higher learning that was founded in 1597 and that hired its first female professor in 1993.

The College started recording lectures in 2000. Several hundred of these can be found in various formats on YouTube and Gresham College's website.

• Unwanted Guests: Human Diseases.
• Germs, Genes and Genesis: The History of Infectious Disease.
• The First World War: Disease, The Only Victor.
• Heart Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects: Science or Art?
• The Black Death (Yersinia Pestis.)
• The Great Pox: The History of Syphilis.
• Blue Funk and Yellow Peril (Asiatic Cholera.)
• The Great Unwashed (Typhus.)
• Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future (HIV-AIDS.)
• Lyme Disease: Is it Safe to Walk in the Park?
• Ebola: Emergence, Epidemic, and the Global Response.
• Feast or Famine: The Psychology of Eating.

General History

Here are a few videos, roughly chronologically arranged, that do not fit anywhere else.

• The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, Pioneer of Vaccination.
• Jenner's Marvellous Medicine.
• Organ Transplantation: The Last 60 Years.
• History of Bennington Fire Department.
• 24|7|365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine.
• If You've Seen One EMS System... (EMS differences.)

Crimean War

• Florence Nightingale - The Lady With The Lamp SC.
• Hidden History-Mary Seacole (Ends at 28:42).
• Mary Seacole Documentary.

US Civil War

• Care of the Wounded - Ranger Karlton Smith.
• Care of the Wounded - Ranger John Hoptak.

World Wars I & II

• Deeds Not Words: The Suffragette Surgeons of WWI.
• Was World War I Good for Medicine?.
• WW2 Medic - US Army First Aid Men.
• The Hero of Hacksaw Ridge: Desmond Doss.

Mid to Late 20th Century

• Return to Life ABC 1959 (Intentional apnea and resuscitation!)
• DustOff - To Save A Soldier (Vietnam War medevac.)
• The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China (Community Paramedicine.)

21st Century

• Street Medicine. (Rough audio but worth a listen.)
• Common Drugs of Abuse.
• Designer Drugs.
• Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child.
• Aeromedical (Medivac from Iraq and Afghanistan.)
• Kwong STDs.
• Constipation - Dr. Doug Lakin.
• Unsung Heroes: Montana's Rural 911 Dispatchers.
• Fire Station 9 (Skid Row, LA.)
• What a Canadian Medic has Witnessed on Ukraine's Front Lines.