Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home

Addiction is an all-encompassing force, in not only the lives of the afflicted, but also those around them. Our American Family provides an honest, un...

Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel, a flop house on the Bowery in New York's skid row. We meet Vic, the desk clerk, who paints watercolours and pastels; J...

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment pr...

Swedish documentary from the Gothenburg area about young drug abusers.

Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordinary circumstances. It follows the complicated rel...

Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004),co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the AIDS Coal...

An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction told through the uniquely intimate perspective...

Habiba Djahnine went to meet activists who continue to take action. To meet them, to capture them in the spaces where they live, work or fight. They i...

Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes...

A feature-length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the impoverished community of Milwaukee despite interna...

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the...