5 Films About Food That Will Astonish You

The following contains a hand-picked list of films about food that expose serious problems with America’s food industry. Our food is making us sick and obese, and the only way to fix it is by one person at a time making the right choices at home.

  1. Food, Inc. is one of the most important films about food that you can watch today.Food Inc.
    This Academy Award-nominated film examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees. (Source: Wikipedia)
  2. Ingredients
    Our world is becoming a more flavorless, disconnected and dangerous place to eat. INGREDIENTS portrays the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities. (Source: IMDB)
  3. Food Matters
    With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide ‘sickness industry’ and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally. (Source: foodmatters.tv)
  4. Forks Over Knives
    The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. (Source: ForksOverKnives.com)
  5. Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead
    A 2010 American documentary film which follows the 60-day journey of Australian Joe Cross across the United States as he follows a juice fast to regain his health. (Source: Wikipedia)