Tag: Documentary

Cocaine Cowboys, the riveting documentary directed by Billy Corben, introduced us to a cast of real-life characters who played significant roles in Miami’s drug trade during the 1970s and 1980s. While the film provided a captivating glimpse into their lives, delving deeper into their post-docu...

The most compelling aspect of this documentary by Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza is the story of Ed Dwight and his experience with training to be an astronaut. In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy declared to his team that he wanted to integrate the space program by includi...

With nearly a hundred Americans dying everyday from opioid overdoses, the U.S. currently faces the worst drug epidemic in its history. More people die from opioid overdoses annually in the U.S. than from car accidents or gun homicides, a number that has quadrupled since 1999. From journalist Perr...

I recently watched a Netflix documentary on psychedelics called “How To Change Your Mind” from Michael Pollan (who also has a book on the same subject). The documentary and the book talk about the effects that substances like Psilocybin (the chemical released by “magic mu...