Movies: Anti drugs

A new principal comes to the underdeveloped village school that is affected by lazy teachers and drugs....

1967 Navy training film MN-10507-A. Navy physician talks about the dangers of LSD or "Russian roulette in a sugar cube." National Archives Identifier: 6379 "How LSD was discovered, the extreme dangers of using it and how it affects the brain and bo...

Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family is...

The plot chronicles the exploits of Michael, a teenager who is using marijuana and stealing his father's beer. His younger sister, Corey, is worried about him because he started acting differently. When her piggy bank goes missing, her cartoon tie-in...

Norwegian propaganda film and cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is safer than alcohol. Together with some friends they decide to try the drug. The start of a...

Three sailors are talked into trying LSD and marijuana--which, this film implies, are basically the same thing--and the effects of the drugs endanger the lives of their fellow sailors aboard ship....

This anti-drug film from 1972 uses abstract and modernist animation styles and techniques to depict the effects of different drugs (both legal and illegal) on the human brain and body. Set to eerie music and inter-spliced with live action footage sho...

The story “Alice in Wonderland” is used as a metaphor about the dangers of accidental drug use among children. Curious Alice's trip to Wonderland is not through the rabbit hole, but rather through her home, where the medicine and kitchen cabinets hol...

Educational film for parents to discuss LSD with their children....

A high school student faces a moral dilemma, should he turn in a friend who is dealing pills....

This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kellman for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Weed: The Story of Marijuana” combines time-lapse, montage, illustrations, animation (by Paul Fierlinger and emigre...

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy....

Short film about the dangers of doing drugs....

Made by 21st Cinetics and Billy Budd Films for the Morris County, Pennsylvania Division of Drug Control and Intervention, “Holy Smoke in Three Acts” is an unconventional anti-drug cartoon that was inspired by ideas put forth by students. The animatio...

Set in New York City in the 1990s, community activists seek to rid their neighborhood of the anguish, brutality, and violence associated with local drug dealers....

Anti-drug film set in Harlem....

In this film titled “From Candy to Cocaine” from 1986, the “Teens Kick-Off” performance group, a performance group recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, perform a modern theater piece on their personal stories of addiction and recoveries. The film ...

Jeanette, a pretty high school student, is looking for “kicks”. She starts hanging out with a wild crowd, and begins popping bennies, uppers and other pills. Soon she graduates from barbiturates to marijuana…...

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this vintage, marijuana leads straight to "H," and Marty's decline continues until he is busted, rehabbed and r...

Struggling with financial difficulties, Max meets his old friend, who suggests him a way to resolve them. Not expecting a dirty trick, he finds himself in a situation that goes beyond his ordinary life....