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Recommend a Documentary v. David Attenborough!

Neurons to Nirvana: Understanding Psychedelic Medicines

"In depth look at the renaissance in psychedelic drug research in light of current scientific, medical and cultural knowledge. The film explores these socially taboo substances as adjuncts to psychotherapy, as crucial but neglected medicines, and as technologies of consciousness. From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines features interviews with some of the world's foremost researchers, writers, and pioneers in the growing field of psychedelic psychotherapy. These radical healers and dissenters are using everything from ancient concoctions to newly created designer molecules to the once demonized psychedelic drugs of the 1960s. They argue convincingly for the legal right to incorporate these substances into therapeutic practice."
 
"Dig!" This one's about Anton Newcombe and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. My favorite music doc. I think it got an award at Cannes or somewhere.
 
wezface said:
I was just about to recommend this. I liked it.
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Don't get me wrong, it was definitely entertaining, but I just kinda liked the book more. It had more information, gets more into the neuropharmacology/metaphysical stuff. It's definitely something to marinate on either way.

I watched half of Neurons to Nirvana earlier, it's pretty great. Definitely recommend
 
It was mentioned on page 4, but worth another mention.
Dopesick Love.

Two couples, copping, shooting up, smoking crack, commiting fraud, impersonating police officers, breaking and entering, sleeping on the st, ... all with no narration.
 
^I am glad you mentioned this again though, since it got me to look it up
It's so gritty. In the worst way, it's compelling to watch this and feel like I have lived like an angle comparatively. I'm just like 20 mins in
 
^ I'm glad you watched it. I've been bad off but I've never been that bad off.

Definitely something anyone thinking about doing heroin should see. It's about as close a look into being a street junkie as you're gonna get without actually trailing them yourself.
 
"Dope Sick Love"...watched this randomly one night, never forgot it.

Just saw it was also mentioned on Page 30 of this thread.

It might profoundly stick with you as it did me. I've never personally been in these folks' situation, but from time to time they will pop into my head and I wonder if they're still alive. That documentary never left my mind.

Don't watch it unless you're ready to see up close raw agony and pain. It has none of the pizazz and hipster music you see in movies like "Trainspotting" or "Requiem for A Dream". Not this. Not here. Because this is not a movie. This is what real life is like every day for way too many people.
 
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Another documentary I'd like to mention is "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" directed by Werner Herzog. This documentary had a substantial effect on me personally. But, then again, pretty much everything Herzog has made does.
 
lazylazyjoe said:
^ I'm glad you watched it. I've been bad off but I've never been that bad off.

Definitely something anyone thinking about doing heroin should see. It's about as close a look into being a street junkie as you're gonna get without actually trailing them yourself.
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Ice Age is pretty good too if you havent seen it
 
i thought i had seen all the good heroin documentaries out there

but i had the pleasure of coming across a real gem today

it follows the documentary maker ( who is on methadone) filming his friends who are heroin addicts and the story ends with him taking ibogaine after he had relapsed and then went back on to maintenance.
really heart warming, touching, powerful, raw. i enjoy depressing heroin documentaries as much as the next bler, but it is nice to see one with a redemption as a part of the story for once.

highly recommended, 10/10 imo

i kind of want to have 'underground ibogaine therapist' as my job now, the guy in the doco seems like a rly chill, drug smart dude

 
Watch this earlier. It's a documentary about research chems, the people who use them, and the people who design, create, and market them.

[video=vimeo;72082590]http://vimeo.com/72082590[/video]


Thanks for the link, Mysterie, sounds awesome
 
Visitors.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2936174/

But, I like that 'pure cinema' bullshit.
 
i just recently watched 'Bridegroom' and that is the only film/documentary that has ever made me cry :(
 


spike lee: when the levees broke. a requiem (2006).

In August 2005, the American city of New Orleans was struck by the powerful Hurricane Katrina. Although the storm was damaging by itself, that was not the true disaster. That happened when the city's flooding safeguards like levees failed and put most of the city, which is largely below sea level, underwater. This film covers that disastrous series of events that devastated the city and its people. Furthermore, the gross incompetence of the various governments and the powerful from the local to the federal level is examined to show how the poor and underprivileged of New Orleans were mistreated in this grand calamity and still ignored today.
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...kytnism...:|
 
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