Counter Culture Movies

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

The film, set almost entirely in New York, tells of the life of some young people of the late Sixties: of the use they make of various drugs,...

The extraordinary life story of science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) who, in spite of remaining for many years on the...

A documentary analyzing the social, political and cultural climate of Hollywood in the mid-1960s.

Uptight killjoy square cop Captain Harold Jinks doesn't approve of the local hippies in an Old West-style rural community romping about naked, so he...

After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City....

Three free spirits cut their ties with the old-fashioned square world and shack up in a love commune. A Seventies cult favorite featuring Star Trek's...

David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live...

After a year in Europe, the young Samantha, daughter of a prominent American politician returns home. She is convinced that she was sent home...

A naive young college student, who is majoring in chemistry, is persuaded by her roommates and a would-be drug dealer to make LSD for them, and she...

This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be....

In 1989, a group of avant-garde artists who had collaborated in private for years received permission to organize their own exhibition at the...

Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his...

This refreshingly frank and impartial study of the discovery and development of the notorious hallucinogenic drug is notably free of moral...

The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S....

In 1967, strait-laced exploitation movie king Roger Corman embarks on a life-changing attempt to capture the psychedelic world of LSD on film by...

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around...

The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary group...

Ex flower child goes looking for revolutionary hero and finds a brilliant no-quitter with a good appetite.