The Élan School was a for-profit, residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located deep within the woods of Maine. Delinquent teenagers who failed to comply with other treatment programs were referred to the school as a last resort. Treatment entailed harsh discipline, surveillance, degradation, and downright abuse. Years later, the patients who were institutionalized in this facility still carry the trauma they endured, with mixed opinions on the impact of their experience.

Carrie Davis was part of the child removal system near the end of the Sixties Scoop. With guidance f...

This documentary attempts to understand why so many comedians experience mental health issues, a con...
Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre o...

The Hugo's Brain is a French documentary-drama about autism. The documentary crosses authentic autis...

The parents are at their wits’ end, so a temporary supervision order is the last hope for a group of...

Keenly aware that his niece is going through a particularly rough time at home, Uncle James teaches ...

Epigenetics and psychogenealogy through a VERY personal experience.
POSSESSED enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their ...

An intensive psychological test by Professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971 saw US students volunteer to pl...

An amateur filmmaker meets the film student who is supposed to edit his material, the focus of which...

Filmed in 1964, this feature-length documentary by Jacques Godbout explores the world of delinquency...

Sociologist David W. Wahl explores the identity work involved in Kay Parker shifting from being a le...

The Queensland country town of Warwick was shocked when a flock of sheep was brutally massacred on a...

How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parent...

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...
THEY HEARD VOICES is a documentary film exploring the Hearing Voices Movement, chronic psychosis, an...

The film is an intimate record of a difficult period in the life of the creators. The main character...