Drug Abuse Movies

Arda Wuyts experiments with editing and color.

After her mother comes back from an extended hospital stay, a young girl begins to envision an ominous monster lurking in her home.

Set in New York City in the 1990s, community activists seek to rid their neighborhood of the anguish, brutality, and violence associated with local...

This color educational movie “Narcosis” is a “scare film” about the realities of heroin and drug addiction The title...

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the...

“The Pill Poppers” is a cautionary educational film that focuses on the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. The scare film follows...

A mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family.

Based on their book, “Why Knock Rock?”, and their church lectures, Dan and Steve Peters examines how rock music's obsession with sex,...

After a big night out partying a young man comes home only to have his worst nightmare ever.

The film tells the story of three friends and their long years of drug addiction in a small village of East Germany.

This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion employs a boldly unconventional approach to...

“Marijuana the Great Escape” was distributed by BFA and produced and directed by J. Gary Mitchell. This film tells the story of a young...

Two brothers from southwest Detroit struggle to improve their lives. Unable to afford college and faced with expulsion - and meanwhile supporting his...

A haunting love story from Robert Lund, Zoe's husband.

This program is an overview of best practices to keep a person who has overdosed alive between discovery and hospitalization. Practices include...

By the end of the seventies, disco music, considered too mainstream, was dead. But DJs and dance floors still needed new records and faster rhythms....