Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

Marked by childhood trauma, three women from different generations living with an eating disorder try to get back to life.

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.

Documentary about eating disorders among professional climbers

A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

A look at the sub-culture of "feeders" - men who are continue feed large women to encourage them to gain more weight to the point where the women become immobile and risk their lives. Featuring interviews with both the male feeders and the women they feed.

'Ugly' is a film that follows Colton Clements, a young man who goes on a journey to discover the emotional and psychological effects the media and advertising has over women. Colton sets out to discover why the media pushes an image of the 'perfect' woman, and what effect this image has on the mindsets of women who are exposed to it. On his journey he meets and interviews a modeling consultant, an anorexia survivor, a therapist, and 'America's Next Top Model' Cycle Ten winner, the plus-sized model Whitney Thompson.

Personal stories taken from a survey on how women's lives are affected by a culture obsessed with body image and thinness.

A short retrospective documentary on the struggles of eating disorder.

A young woman examines her eating disorder recovery. She consciously resists the temptation to rely on visuals of starvation and specific body weights, instead seeking to articulate the deeper questions: why do eating disorders develop? Why do eating disorders persist? And how does healing happen?

What lies behind a perfect body? Have you got this just playing sports? In this film we show an underworld of illegal substances, uncontrolled consumption of them and the obsession to have a muscular body. Because vigorexia affects more people than anorexia and bulimia, but is much less known.

The insidious power of eating disorders is swift and devastating. Sufferers are left at the mercy of dangerous thoughts and turbulent emotions, isolating themselves from their loved ones who struggle to protect them. This sensitive film approaches anorexia and bulimia from a deeply personal angle, revealing a family fighting to remain unified in the wake of this brutal illness.

A documentary focusing on the prevalence of disordered eating and eating disorders among dancers.

Locked in her apartment, a teenager shares her relationship with food.

James Roddie is a caver, climber and a professional photographer. He’s also a 30-year-old man with an eating disorder. After the death of his father, James deals with it the best way he knows how – heading underground with his camera. Delving into his story, James candidly explores why caving, adventure, and mental health are so intricately tied together.

A guy talks about his struggle with his food disorder.

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression

A short experimental documentary all about the filmmaker’s experience with her childhood eating disorder, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFiD)

Stuck in Saturday detention, two teen girls with a strong distaste for each other quickly find themselves on the run when they stumble across a dead teacher and a masked killer. Can they put aside their differences, and overcome their own personal struggles, in order to survive?

A young woman discovers that both her husband and their new home harbor sinister secrets after they leave Manhattan for small-town life.