Movies and Video
The Anonymous People
THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE is a feature documentary film about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
The Anonymous People is a great way to catalyze a dialogue on addiction awareness, and recovery advocacy in your community. The film has teamed up with independent film distributor Kino Lorber to make bringing The Anonymous People to your local area easier than ever. You can now acquire institutional rights to permanently use this educational and inspirational film in your prevention, treatment, or recovery program, high school, hospital, university, jail, faith-based group, and other training programs!
Bill W.
William G. Wilson is co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME Magazine's "100 Persons of the 20th Century." Interviews, recreations, and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. With Bill as its driving force, A.A. grew from a handful of men to a worldwide fellowship of over 2 million men and women - a success that made him an icon within A.A., but also an alcoholic unable to be a member of the very society he had created. A reluctant hero, Bill Wilson lived a life of sacrifice and service, and left a legacy that continues every day, all around the world. A FilmBuff Presentation.
My Name is Bill W.
This film reconstructs the true story of stockbroker William Griffith Wilson, a World War I veteran whose small drinking problem becomes a serious addiction after he loses his fortune in the stock market collapse of 1929. Wilson's career and his domestic life are in tatters when he meets Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith also struggling with a drinking problem. The two form a support group that becomes the basis for the organization Alcoholics Anonymous.
Russell Brand From Addiction To Recovery
Russell Brand Full Length documentary on drug addiction and recovery from drug abuse. Interesting full length documentary about heroin drug abuse that looks at the difference treating addicts with recovery and medically sound programs vs. throwing them in prisons and punishing them.
Days of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick are unforgetable-and the title tune wins an Oscar(R) in Blake Edwards' searing, bittersweet study of an alcoholic couple on the rocks. You can see the trailer on YouTube.
Lost Weekend
A serious, painful and uncompromising, frank look at alcohol addiction that follows almost five days ('one lost weekend') in the life of a chronic, tortured alcoholic, and failed writer. The dark-tempered, melodramatic social-problem film was both a critically- and financially-successful endeavor. YouTube Trailer
Opioids From the Inside
There is a person’s story behind every opioid addiction. And each story of addiction has a ripple effect.
Opioids from Inside follows the journey of three women, all mothers, who have served time in New York State jails for opioid-related crimes. Growing up, these women dreamed of having a family, a career. None of them dreamed of being an addict.
Told in the first person, with no narration, the film follows the story arc of their life before drugs, the power of the drugs that took over their lives, and the effect addiction had on their families as they spent time in and out of jail as their children were raised by other people.
We hear how trust of family members was lost over time as the addiction took hold. We feel the frustration, anger, and heartbreak. Interviews with experts help to contextualize what we’re seeing, that these are not isolated stories but are symptomatic of the unraveling of communities. What is the long-term impact on families, specifically on the children of incarcerated mothers? Where is this heading? What is the ripple effect?
These women are not simply addicts, they are mothers and daughters, they are loved and feared, they are abusers and victims, but most of all, they are humans.
America Addicted
MPT presents a compilation of PBS NewsHour's opioid epidemic series with local interviews with addiction experts, hosted by Jeff Salkin.
Opioid Epidemic: What Every Family Needs to Know
America’s opioid crisis includes addiction to prescription pain relievers, heroin and synthetic opioids with more than 90 people dying each day from an opioid overdose.
Chasing Heroin
FRONTLINE looks at America's heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic
A documentary that combines stories of people and communities impacted by opioids.
How the opioid crisis became the biggest drug epidemic
very day brings another story about the depth of the country’s opioid crisis. A rise of pain killer prescriptions from doctors and a pharmaceutical industry eager to boost sales in the 1990s sparked a wave of addiction that shot up by almost 500 percent in the last 15 years. As a prologue to our series covering the opioid crisis, “America Addicted,” William Brangham reports on how we got here.
"Dealing with Addiction"
Jennifer Weiss-Burke speaks about her son Cameron a high school wrestler who became addicted to painkillers after a sports injury. She gives insight on treatment of addiction, advice on how to talk to your kids, where and when to seek help.
