Asylum: A History of the Mental Institution in America

Guide to a Midwest Hometown

Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in his hometown and how they've changed. “Guide to a Mi

2022

Awareness in the Dark; Let's Get Mental

Filmmaker Gentamu McKinney and medical professionals recall experiences with mental illness and provide insight into the unique mental health struggle

2016

Is Your Story Making You Sick?

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our s

2018

Afterword: Images of the Unconscious

Dialoguing directly with the trilogy of documentaries “Images of the Unconscious”, made between 1983 and 1986 and based on clinical cases and therapie

2014

The Weight of Gold

Just like one in five Americans, many Olympic athletes similarly face serious mental health challenges and struggle to find the necessary support and

2020

Into Madness

Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three families shattered by the psychiatric disorder of sc

1989

Rolanda Polonsky, Sculptor

Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hospital in Coulsdon, Surrey for 2

1971

Mental as Everything

Damon Smith has estimated that he has spent around 50,000 hours of his life, so far, participating in absurd ritualistic behaviours associated with hi

2021

Scars

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.

2020

Childhood 2.0

For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children. Many parents still view dan

2020

De Laatste Dagen van Aurelia Brouwers

2018

Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia

Why do we see so many severely mentally ill people on the street off treatment? Delaney has seen her paranoid schizophrenic father in this state and f

2010

From Local to Social

Using local media footage from the London Borough of Southwark spanning the past 20 years, this documentary discusses complex social issues including

2024

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to sha

2014

Too Young To Die

PTSD911

First Responders sign up to serve; they risk their lives and their mental health to respond to someone’s worst day. Who will rescue them? PTSD911 is a

Ride the Tiger: A Guide Through the Bipolar Brain

Nearly 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and yet little is known about how the illness manifests itself in our brains. Rid

2016

Charley Pride: I'm Just Me

This film traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mi

2019

Trans - La confusion des genres

2022

Tiger

“I want to be a tiger. I am an atheist from Iraq and I am seeking asylum. About my hallucinations… It’s difficult. Horrible monsters. I hope I can hel

2017