One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric drug, including millions of children. Pharmaceutical companies have over-hyped the benefits of these drugs, while hiding the risks and severe side effects including physiological dependence. "Medicating Normal" explores what happens when for- profit medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

Carmen's life has been a quixotic comedy; surviving the war, becoming a nun, getting divorced in a c...

On the night of Oct. 2, 2005, Hart and Dana Perry's 15-year-old son Evan jumped to his death from hi...

In 1952, Amédée took his own life by jumping into the Seine. No one knows the reason for this tragic...

Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’...
The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the...
The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who i...

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)...

In a drought-struck region in India, suffering from climate change and a high suicide rate amongst f...

How does a traumatic event shape a family? How do you sift through the memories to find hidden clues...

Filmmaker Tobias Hermansen, known for Dreamscape and Mentally Unavailable, has battled depression fo...
A look at the growing epidemic of suicide in the America. It looks at those effected by suicide and ...

Narrator and director Michael Schaap's confessional style and general goofiness bring levity to an a...

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt an...

New York cab and black car drivers are facing economic and emotional hardship in a city dominated by...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...
A popular science film about the creation of a new drug, from the moment a chemist determines, based...

Interviews with former drug dealers, over-prescribing doctors and DEA agents uncover a shocking trut...

One of the most powerful video documentaries of our time boldly reveals the modern medical-industria...

VPRO icon Wim Brands died on April 4, 2016. He was known to the general public as a presenter of the...

An exclusive interview with Death as he goes about his everyday business.