Documentary
This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion employs a boldly unconventional approach to addressing the issues of drug addiction, featuring the music of Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. The film eschews narration for montage effects and extended fly-on-the-wall scenes of various drug users in conversation.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
O světle
Phone
Psychedelic Glue Sniffin' Hillbillies
WEED
Focus On Heroin
The Inner Life of the Cell
First Aid Action
My Dead Body
What Did You Take?
Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland
Slavery In The 70's
Voyage Inside the Cell
Narcotics, Why Not?
2012: Time for Change
Narcotic Deaths
Use Your Eyes
Doper
Tractor Ted Mighty Maize Machine
Tractor Ted Makes Bread
The Distant Drummer: Bridge from No Place
SIMILAR MOVIES
O světle
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1953
Phone
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1974
A primer on proper phone manners produced for the New Zealand Post Office.Psychedelic Glue Sniffin' Hillbillies
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1993
A documentary by Craig Smith shot in West Virginia, USA; on the drug taking and sexual promiscuity within the USA.WEED
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1971
This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kellman for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Weed: The Story of Marijuana” combines time-lapse, montage, illustrations, animation (by Paul Fierlinger and emigre Pavel Vošický) and dramatized, documentary-style interviews to survey the evolving role of cannabis in U.S. society, with emphasis on the legal risks faced by young people. A unique score of experimental synthesizer music is provided by Tony Luisi on an EMS VCS 3 “Putney”Focus On Heroin
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1971
This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level and cannot always be detected by appearance. Addicts and ex-addicts describe the first and subsequent drugs they used.The Inner Life of the Cell
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2006
This short film, commissioned by Harvard University, illustrates the elegant mechanisms by which a white blood cell responds to a stimulus.First Aid Action
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1973
Concentrates upon basic first aid steps. Simulated situations provide an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, shock, bleeding, burns, fractures, poisoning and sudden illness. A recap is made of all first aid directions. Shots of real accidents provide realism which reinforce the film’s theme. Narrated by Burt Reynolds. ACMI Identifier 003727My Dead Body
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2022
The extraordinary moving story of Toni Crews, a young mum with a rare terminal cancer who charted her illness online before donating her body for medical research and public dissection.What Did You Take?
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1971
Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes of actual cases in the emergency room and adjoining physician's offices of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Viewers observe emergency treatment of patients in the major classes of drugs commonly abused, opiates, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. The film demonstrates to health professionals that successful management of drug overdoses can save most lives and avert additional organic and psychiatric complications.Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 2010
Reindeerspotting is a documentary film of a group of young guys living in Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle, dabbling in petty crime and hard drugs. One of them, Jani, has lost five years of his life and two fingers to his debotators. He wants to leave Lapland and his old life behind. Robbing a supermarket is a start for his getaway. A few years back a documentarist, Joonas Neuvonen, was a young men living on social welfare, using drugs on daily basis. He started to film his friends and their life. This is the story of Jani.Slavery In The 70's
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1972
Heroin anti-drug educational filmVoyage Inside the Cell
IMDB 10 | Jan , 1999
This narrated computer animation, with an original musical score, illuminates cellular mitosis. DNA self-replicates; chromosomes divide into two daughter cells; but it begins with a hormone entering the nucleus of a cell.Narcotics, Why Not?
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1966
This film presents a series of extemporaneous interviews with teenagers and young adults who have taken narcotics for "kicks," "association," or "curiosity." Residents of the California Rehabilitation Center relate how they were introduced to narcotics, why they wished they had not used drugs or narcotics, and what the future holds for them. Film is shot in Hollywood, Calif.2012: Time for Change
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 2010
2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ecological design.Narcotic Deaths
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1970
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the types of narcotic deaths and drugs encountered by Dr. Milton Helpern in his post as Chief Medical Examiner for New York City and to describe internal and external body changes resulting from narcotism. This objective is achieved with the use of photographs of overdose victims and the equipment found and used by addicts. According to this presentation narcotic addiction which has been a problem for many years has increased markedly within the last twenty years. The use of amphetamines and marijuana is discussed briefly and the equipment used by addicts is described and illustrated. Dr. Helpern then shows photographs of overdose victims and describes the circumstances under which the body was found.Use Your Eyes
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1970
“Use Your Eyes” is a police training film produced by the Alhambra Police Department, California, in 1970. It is intended to demonstrate to police officers how to search a residence for evidence of marijuana use, and what rights they have to search the property once certain prima facia evidence is established.Doper
IMDB 4.5 | Jan , 1987
Documentary following some stoner friends over the course of roughly a day. Featured here is Bill, a guy who got kicked out of the Marines for doing dope steadily for six years (I'm not gonna do it forever--or maybe I will, who knows?) and Barry, a forklift-driving doper who wins the Employee of the Month plaque while stoned (Live for yourself--live today and then worry about tomorrow when it gets here--that's the way I go).Tractor Ted Mighty Maize Machine
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2011
Tractor Ted visits two farms, one is a cow dairy and the other is a sheep dairy! He meets the amazing forage harvester which is very busy making silage from the grass and the maize, singalong to the harvesting song. Les forgets something rather important - what can it be?Tractor Ted Makes Bread
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2006
Where does our bread come from? A trip to Tractorland shows us the ploughing, seeding and harvesting of the corn that is made into flour to make bread. Fantastic scenes of some great machines at work.The Distant Drummer: Bridge from No Place
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1970
This film describes the 1960s drug culture. Addicts discuss their experiences in the United States and in Vietnam. Dr. Stanley Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), talks about the drug culture and the NIMH role in prevention and treatment. The tape describes growth in the use of marijuana and heroin. In 1966, the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act is the first law to give the addict a choice of treatment or jail. Synanon in California is a private, self-help, residential community that helps people deal with their addictions. New York's Daytop Village works not only with addicts on addictions, but on developing a new lifestyle. Methadone, though still experimental, has proved to be an effective treatment for heroin addiction.