Extremis (2016)

Nominated for Best Documentary Short   The tagline for this film (which  is very small because every poster I looked at was for the Extremis story arc of Iron Man) says "Between science and faith lies the ultimate choice" and it's a little misleading, I think.  I didn't get that sense from the film, but that might be because I'm not a terribly religious person.

In this 20-minute documentary, doctors and family members must decide what to do with patients who can no longer breathe on their own:  hook them to ventilators and medically keep them alive or take them off and let them die.

People.  For the love of everything you consider holy, take the time to have that conversation with your family before it ever becomes necessary.  It really is cruel to leave them to make a decision while you lie helpless in a bed in front of them.  Ventilator or no ventilator is a personal choice and I don't think you should be judged either way.  But make it easier on your family and make the decision for yourself.

That has nothing to do with the documentary itself, which isn't very good, by the way.  It's too short to have any sort of narrative arc, it doesn't introduce any of the doctors or patients, or provide you any reason to care one way or another.  The White Helmets was way better.