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An ode to queer sex and drugs, boys shooting up and kissing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1998.

Four hit-men come up with a complex plan to double-cross their drug dealer boss. Things begin to go awry when an internal power struggle threatens to tear everything apart.

By the end of the seventies, disco music, considered too mainstream, was dead. But DJs and dance floors still needed new records and faster rhythms. Built on synthesizer sounds, the hi-nrg (high energy) style swept the gay clubs before hitting the charts during the eighties.

Daniel, a gay banker, falls for Kafka, a straight instructor battling addiction, believing love can conquer all, but past memories threaten their bond.

While Heavy Metal is often accused of being static and conservative, in truth it is a radical form that regularly re-invents itself, and one which attracts generation after generation of musicians willing to learn from the past, but hungry to evolve the future. And so it was that, in the early 1980s, a young man named Lars Ulrich was so taken by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, then creating music paper headlines in the UK, that he came to England to track down obscure records, take them home to LA and, with his buddies, listen to them - until they came up with a genre of their own, soon be termed Thrash Metal.

A man talks about his addiction to amphetamines and illustrates his struggle by his sudden inability to fix a radio.

4xDVD set, Volume 1 CHICAGO EXIT CLUB 15-04-1984 / BRIXTON ACADEMY, LONDON 06-04-1983 / GLASGOW NIGHTMOVIES 01-04-1983 / FENDER BALLROOM, LONG BEACH CA 30-05-1985 / ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON 06-06-1985 (Amateur & Alternative Complete Show) / YORK RACE COURSE 22-09-1984 (filmed close to stage) / PETERBOROUGH UNIVERSITY 23-04-1983 / OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST 04-04-1985

4xDVD set, Volume 2 Visions of Mercy - Live Clips 1983-1985 PETERBOROUGH UNIVERSITY 23-04-1983 / GLASGOW NIGHTMOVIES 01-04-1983 / BRIXTON ACADEMY, LONDON 06-04-1983 / PROMO: Body and Soul / CHICAGO EXIT CLUB 15-04-1984 / OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST 02-04-1985: / YORK RACE COURSE 22-09-1984 / BELGIUM TV: Interview / PROMO: Black Planet / FENDERS BALLROOM, LONG BEACH CA 30-05-1985 / LONDON ROYAL ALBERT HALL 18-06-1985 / YORK RACE COURSE 22-09-1984 (Filmed far from the scene) / AMSTERDAM PARADISO 28-08-1983 / BERLIN LOFT 30-08-1983: / PETERBOROUGH TECH 23-04-1983 / THROUGH THE GLOOM, STITTGARD MAXIM 12-11-1984

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are quickly blurred. Through great ups and downs their love will be tested, but the ultimate test lies in whether or not they will survive the downward pull of the lifestyle they have chosen.

Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main financial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

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.

Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cartels are working with local outlawed motorcycle gangs to push crystal meth to a captive market of children.

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

Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug use PSAs from National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (NCADI). The films were assembled by a film collector who did public screenings of cult films; he often showed this compilation under the moniker “Stoner’s Night Out”. NCADI is the information service for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The PSAs that comprise this film combine footage of drug use as well as interviews. Overall, this film warns of the short-term and long-term effects of drug use with the later segments of the film focusing on marijuana use specifically.

Tony, a promising young motorcycle racer, is forced to do perilous drug runs to save the mother of his child from a dangerous mobster.

Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes of actual cases in the emergency room and adjoining physician's offices of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Viewers observe emergency treatment of patients in the major classes of drugs commonly abused, opiates, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. The film demonstrates to health professionals that successful management of drug overdoses can save most lives and avert additional organic and psychiatric complications.

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the types of narcotic deaths and drugs encountered by Dr. Milton Helpern in his post as Chief Medical Examiner for New York City and to describe internal and external body changes resulting from narcotism. This objective is achieved with the use of photographs of overdose victims and the equipment found and used by addicts. According to this presentation narcotic addiction which has been a problem for many years has increased markedly within the last twenty years. The use of amphetamines and marijuana is discussed briefly and the equipment used by addicts is described and illustrated. Dr. Helpern then shows photographs of overdose victims and describes the circumstances under which the body was found.

“The Pill Poppers” is a cautionary educational film that focuses on the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. The scare film follows the lives of three teenagers who get involved in drugs and highlights the effects this has on their lives.

An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with financial assistance of the Woman’s Relief Corps targets teachers as well as junior and senior high school students in the war on drugs. Narcotics are classified and effects of opiates, stimulants, and barbiturates are summarized and dramatized

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