Forks Over Knives

Forks Over Knives (2011) is a documentary by Lee Fulkerson you can watch online on iFILM. Its argument is blunt: the fork can do what the scalpel can't. The film claims most of our degenerative diseases can be slowed or reversed by dropping animal-based and processed food.

It builds on decades of work by two researchers — biochemist T. Colin Campbell and surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn — who tracked how diet feeds into heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Cameras follow ordinary patients switching to a whole-food, plant-based diet under medical supervision, and the bloodwork does the talking. Fulkerson puts himself on the same regimen and films the results. One-sided in places and easy to argue with, it still lands as a sharp nudge to rethink what's on your plate. Stream Forks Over Knives (2011) online on iFILM.