1. Inside: Medical Marijuana
In Northern California's Emerald Triangle, more than two thirds of the population are employed, in one way or another, by the marijuana business. Meet the rabbi aiming to open Washington DC’s first medical marijuana dispensary. As we follow the players and the pot into this brave new world, examine the myths and the science behind cannabis' purported medicinal properties. Is it worthless, a cure-all, or somewhere in between?
2. A Boy Has Been Dead
An investigation on the death of a 18-year-old boy and its cover-up by the police.
It has an average vote of 6.75 on TMDB.
3. Woodstock
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.
It has an average vote of 7.527 on TMDB.
4. Chasing the dragon (Chasser les dragons)
Unexpected shelter made of prefabs in the heart of a burning city, the supervised drug consumption facility is open every day of the year. Cause some things know neither relief, nor rest, nor death. A place like no other where to come back, again and again, because here, they would make you feel, at last, you’re someone.
5. Happy Pills (Happy Pills)
A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimate response to human pursuits of well-being.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. Manolo Kabezabolo (Si todavía te kedan dientes es ke no estuviste ahí) (Manolo Kabezabolo (Si todavía te kedan dientes es ke no estuviste ahí))
Documentary about Manuel Méndez, better known as Manolo Kabezabolo, a punk artist who in a somewhat implausible way has crossed time, space and fashions, without giving up his essences and principles.
7. The Weird World of LSD
The 60s equivalent of Reefer Madness and all those other 30s drug exploitation flicks. Apparently, dropping acid leads to stripteases, cat fights, promiscuous sex, playing with kittens, and being convinced your dinner is much larger than it actually is. This is all illustrated in a series of silent sketches accompanied by a droll narrator who seems positively doped out of his mind.
It has an average vote of 3.6 on TMDB.
8. Dread Beat an' Blood
Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
9. Noon Sun (Sol de Mediodía)
A group of mexican high school students spent their time at parties and outside of school practicing skateboard, drinking an doing drugs.
10. Ink, Blood and Spirit (Ink, Blood and Spirit)
(Ink, Blood and Spirit)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. Does Your Soul Have a Cold? (マイク・ミルズのうつの話)
By following the lives of five Japanese individuals this documentary explores the problem of depression in Japan and how the marketing of anti-depressant drugs has changed the way the Japanese view depression. Marketing of anti-depressants did not begin in Japan until the late 1990s and prior to this, depression was not widely recognized as a problem by the Japanese public. Since then, use of anti-depressants has sky-rocketed and use of the Japanese word "utsu" to describe depression has become commonplace, having previously been used only by psychiatric professionals.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
12. I Was Possessed by God
On Valentine's Day, 1993, Caveh Zahedi decided to ingest 5 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms. For the first time in his mushroom-taking history, he had an experience of "divine possession," in which he felt that a divine being took possession of his body and spoke through him, in a voice that was not his, and with knowledge that he himself did not possess. He later tried several times to repeat the experience. I WAS POSSESSED BY GOD is the documentary record of one such attempt.
It has an average vote of 0.5 on TMDB.
13. Kids On Ice
Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cartels are working with local outlawed motorcycle gangs to push crystal meth to a captive market of children.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Art & Krimes by Krimes
While locked-up for six years in federal prison, artist Jesse Krimes secretly creates monumental works of art—including an astonishing 40-foot mural made with prison bed sheets, hair gel, and newspaper. He smuggles out each panel piece-by-piece with the help of fellow artists, only seeing the mural in totality upon coming home. As Jesse's work captures the art world's attention, he struggles to adjust to life outside, living with the threat that any misstep will trigger a life sentence.
15. Wasted Talent
(Wasted Talent)
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
16. Don't Get High on Your Own Supply
This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he becomes part of the hard drug scene through researching it for his book . It shows Lanre as he becomes a character in his own book through his heroin addiction.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Ženy v uniformě (Ženy v uniformě)
(Ženy v uniformě)
18. People Like You
Told through the eyes of a mom whose son is struggling with Substance Use Disorder, PEOPLE LIKE YOU is an unblinking, emotional feature documentary on the opioid epidemic.
19. Beyond Kicks
In the early 1970s, a group of young volunteers, the Free Youth Clinic of Winnipeg, operated a "crisis bus" to rescue young people experiencing bad drug trips, usually from LSD.
20. Ocupação Mulheres Mirabal (Ocupação Mulheres Mirabal)
(Ocupação Mulheres Mirabal)