Film Documentaries

A film that explores prescription anti-depressant medications and their effectiveness in treating the hidden epidemic of anxiety and depression.

American Anxiety 2 trailer.

American Anxiety trailer.

Through interviews with leading researchers, experts, psychiatrists and patients, filmmaker Mark W. Curran uncovers the disturbing truth about America's growing mental health crisis... and what is being done to fight it.

In the first part, a look at how Purdue Pharma worked with the FDA to get OxyContin approved for wider use, promoting the highly profitable pain medication's safety without sufficient evidence, and creating a campaign to redefine pain and how it's treated.

The Crime of the Century trailer. This series is a searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.

In the second part and conclusion, a spotlight on the mass marketing of the synthetic opioid fentanyl examines the connections between drug manufacturers and government policy.

Millions of people worldwide are injured by prescribed psychiatric medications. Interweaving stories of harm with expert testimony, the film reveals how a profit-driven industry hides the risks of long-term use.

Medicating Normal trailer.

The Happy Pill trailer.

Silje Marie Strandberg was seriously ill. She heard voices, hallucinated, cut herself, had an eating disorder and repeatedly tried to kill herself. She was so sick that no one thought she could ever recover. But after 10 years in mental wards, 10 years of compulsion, isolation, electrolysis and heavy medication, she finally recovered and is now completely healthy. The difference was her psychiatric nurse, Lone.

Letters from Generation Rx trailer.

Letters from Generation Rx reflects the stories of thousands of people who wrote to Director Kevin P. Miller to share their experiences on psychiatric drugs. This powerful film explores the science behind antidepressants, their effects on the brain and the horrific experiences endured by patients and their loved ones.

Cause of Death Unknown trailer.

Has the medical industry been lured and duped into over-prescribing their patient population? Overpill examines this pressing concern that affects the lives of millions. The film introduces us to several ordinary people who are struggling with issues related to mental health, addiction and grave uncertainties for their future.

Overpill trailer.

After her sister died suddenly and unexpectedly while being treated with prescription antipsychotics, director Anniken Hoel begins a global investigation into the pharmaceutical industry, the unheralded growth of psychiatric diagnoses and medication, and the corruption of the government regulatory agencies (FDA and EMA) that are supposed to protect us citizens.

After witnessing friends and relatives face tragedy as they become addicted to prescription drugs, Director Chris Bell sets out to explore the goals of pharmaceutical companies and doctors in this ever-growing market, and asks how they are any different from back-alley drug-pushers.

THE BIG LIE continues where AMERICAN ADDICT (2012) left off, going deeper into its examination of how politics, money, media, medical practice, the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies join at the hip.

The Big Lie: American Addict 2 trailer.

Prescription Thugs trailer.

Coming Off Psych Drugs: A Meeting of the Minds trailer.

More than half the film's subjects have successfully come off a variety of medications and several participants give trainings on the process.

The film follows the stories of eight individuals whose lives have been deeply impacted by prescription medications and off-label drug use.

Off Label trailer.

American Addict trailer.

Doctors and relatives to patients testify how SSRIs can not only lead to new feelings of suspicion and jealousy, but also to murder, suicide, and birth defects.

Millions of Swedes are suffering because of the effects from antidepressants, the SSRIs. The whole of society is affected by the antidepressant whose main effect is that you "care" less. No one speaks today of the effect which is in fact a reduction in conscience and empathy.

Documentary trilogy about what happens when media let the pharmaceutical industry and the actions they take threaten society and how doctors are being manipulated. Medicines are the single most damaging cause on humans and are in need of government regulations and international cooperation. But there is also a special need for journalists who "investigate" instead of permitting themselves to be bought by PR firms that make commercials into information and news.

Riveting look at the politics, big business and the medical industry that has made America the most prescription-addicted society in the world. America is less than 5% of the World's population but consumes 80% of the World's prescription narcotics.

The authorities and the media do not scrutinize the scientists who advocate increasing this medication for the Swedish population. The corruption is so sophisticated that Public Service television and radio, against formal rules, permit the proliferation of the pharmaceutical advertising campaigns.

Documentary film on the Western Lapland Open Dialogue Project, the program presently getting the best results in the developed world for first-break psychosis .

Open Dialogue: An Alternative Finnish Approach to Healing Psychosis trailer.

In-depth exploration of the Family Care Foundation, one of the best psychosis-oriented programs in the world.

Healing Homes: Recovery from Psychosis without Medication trailer.

Documentary film containing cutting edge information concerning depression & dysthymia. Interviews with leading spiritual, medical, and mental health professionals; tempered with personal stories of struggle.

Changing Our Minds trailer.

Documentary by David Heine about his brothers path through the Public Health system and the pill culture that surrounds Mental health in the United states.

Little Brother Big Pharma trailer.

A documentary on recovery from schizophrenia without medication, featuring Joanne Greenberg (bestselling author of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"), recovered for over fifty years, and Catherine Penney, recovered for over thirty years.

An eye-opening documentary dealing with the costs of prescribing psychiatric drugs with serious side effects to children.

Take These Broken Wings trailer.

Generation RX Trailer.

Prescription for Disaster trailer.

An in-depth investigation into the symbiotic relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, lobbyists, lawmakers, medical schools, and researchers, and the impact this has on consumers and their health care.

Big Bucks - Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs TRAILER.

Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain.

Six families who experienced antidepressant drugs prescribed to their children, describe their feelings, reactions, relationships with the medical professionals involved, and how they cope with the challenges resulting from these medications.

The Drugging of Our Children trailer.

Prescription: Suicide? Trailer.

Filmmaker Gary Null examine the increasingly common practice of prescribing psychotropic drugs for children, including pre-schoolers as young as age 2 to 4, who have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD.

Selling Sickness trailer.

Examines the pharmaceutical industry's marketing of antidepressants with particular emphasis on the firm GlaxoSmithKline. It explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as they promote miracle cures - selling not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them.