Looking for the best nutrition documentaries?
This A–Z list features powerful films exploring diet, chronic disease, food systems, plant-based nutrition, and overall health.
These documentaries combine scientific research, expert interviews, and real-life stories to help you better understand how what we eat impacts our health and the world around us.
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Diet Fiction
Nutrition and weight loss documentary exploring the diet industry and common misconceptions around obesity.
Follows filmmaker Michal Siewierski investigating conflicting advice and misleading information in nutrition.
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Food Choices
Plant-based nutrition documentary examining how food impacts human health, the environment, and animal welfare.
Features interviews with multiple experts and explores global dietary patterns.
Food Inc
Landmark investigative food documentary exposing how industrial food systems prioritise profit over health, farmers, and the environment.
Reveals hidden practices in large-scale food production.
Food Matters
Wellness-focused nutrition documentary exploring diet, supplementation, and natural health approaches.
Forks Over Knives
One of the most influential nutrition documentaries, exploring how whole-food, plant-based diets may help prevent and reverse chronic disease.
Strong focus on food as medicine.
Game Changers
Sports nutrition documentary exploring plant-based diets and athletic performance.
Features elite athletes, scientists, and performance research.
How Not to Die
Science-based nutrition documentary inspired by research on preventing chronic disease through diet.
Focus on whole-food, plant-based eating.
Hungry For Change
Diet industry documentary exposing weight loss myths and processed food marketing.
Features expert interviews and transformation stories.
Best for understanding why diets often fail…
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Plant Pure Nation
Plant-based nutrition documentary exploring healthcare, policy, and barriers to dietary change.
Follows a campaign to promote whole-food plant-based nutrition.
Poisoned
Investigative food safety documentary examining food-borne illness and systemic issues in the food industry.
Focuses on public health risks and regulation.
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Super Juice Me!
Nutrition experiment documentary exploring the effects of a juice-only diet on multiple individuals.
Follows participants with various health conditions.
Best for alternative approaches to short-term dietary change.
Vegucated
Plant-based lifestyle documentary following participants transitioning to a vegan diet.
Combines humour with education on food systems and health.
What The Health
Controversial nutrition documentary investigating links between diet, chronic disease, and the healthcare system.
Strong plant-based message, though widely debated.
You Are What You Eat
Nutrition experiment documentary following identical twins on different diets (vegan vs omnivore).
Explores how diet affects metabolism, energy, and overall health.