Medicating Normal

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Joris Ivens and wife Marceline Loridan took their cameras into Pharmacy No. 3 in Shanghai, which in addition to dispensing drugs manages an outreach...

Documentary about a musician's plan to kill himself.

In the last 10 years, the landscape of the pharmaceutical industry has changed. A handful of multinationals control the manufacture of most of the...

The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - the world's most...

"The trauma of 9/11, the ideology of violent retribution, military service as a patriotic family tradition, the “unfairness” of...

The 60s equivalent of Reefer Madness and all those other 30s drug exploitation flicks. Apparently, dropping acid leads to stripteases, cat fights,...

A short film portrays the events of a depressed man's day, culminating, presumably, in his suicide, though the ending is ambiguous. Afterwards, a...

The final word in the story of what really happened to Robin Williams at the end of his life, focusing on his fight against a deadly...

Michael Hutchence was flying high as the lead singer of the legendary rock band INXS until his untimely death in 1997. Richard Lowenstein’s...

This walk in the daily life of several psychiatric institutions, allows us to meet extraordinary people who let us enter their privacy.

Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic...

The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969,...

A boy posts a message on the Internet seeking a suicide partner. A girl reads it and flies to meet him one week later. Together they jump off a...

A program about Ted Gärdestad and his music with archival images from his entire musical career and newly made interviews with people who have...

An in-depth look at how a diabetes drug reinvented weight loss culture and the way we treat obesity in America.