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Featured Films
- Prohibition: A Nation of Drunkards (streaming, Academic Video Online) PROHIBITION, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The film starts with the early history of alcohol in America and examines the 19th-century temperance and progressive movements through the repeal of the 18th Amendment in 1933.
- Prohibition: A Nation of Scofflaws (streaming, Academic Video Online) PROHIBITION, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The film starts with the early history of alcohol in America and examines the 19th-century temperance and progressive movements through the repeal of the 18th Amendment in 1933.
- Prohibition: A Nation of Hypocrites (streaming, Academic Video Online) PROHIBITION, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The film starts with the early history of alcohol in America and examines the 19th-century temperance and progressive movements through the repeal of the 18th Amendment in 1933.
- Faded: Girls and Binge Drinking (streaming, Academic Video Online) Filmed in the world of non-stop parties and all-night martinis, Faded navigates the complicated lives of four girls who must grapple with their binge drinking problems before it’s too late. The film profiles four young women, ages 14 to 22, as they battle the heart-break and confusion of growing up in a culture that romanticizes alcohol.
- Drinking Alcohol (streaming, Academic Video Online) This documentary, produced by American Multimedia, is about alcohol use and abuse in adolescents.
- Coping With an Alcoholic Parent. (streaming, Academic Video Online) Your spouse is an alcoholic, and your family life is in chaos. Alcohol addiction has taken over the life of your spouse and your family. But there are things you can do while your spouse is drinking, and even if he or she stops to make things easier on your family life, and on your kids. This dramatic program takes you into the lives of real people who have embarked on the long road to recovery from addiction, and it shares the intimate struggles of families dealing with this all too common disease. There are real tips here, solid information on how you can improve your family life until your spouse the alcoholic parent can begin to help you turn things around.
- Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol (streaming, Academic Video Online) pin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviours. Award-winning media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne contrast these distorted representations with the often disturbing and dangerous ways that alcohol consumption affects the lives of real young men and women. Illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Katz and Kilbourne decode the power and influence these seductive media images have in shaping gender identity, which is linked to the use of alcohol. Nowhere is this link more cause for concern than on America's college campuses.
- Next Door: A Documentary About a Teenage Alcoholic and Her Family (streaming, Academic Video Online) This documentary, by director J. Clements, is about a teenage alcoholic and her family.
- Drinking and alcohol-related harm among adolescents and young adults (streaming, Academic Video Online) Frequent and hazardous consumption of alcohol beverages is particularly pronounced among adolescence and young adults in many nations around the world. This has given rise to pervasive alcohol-related harm in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
- Mission critical. Underage drinking (streaming, Academic Video Online) Alcohol use by individuals under 21 is a major public health problem and contributes to more than 4,300 deaths each year.
- Girls' night out (streaming, Academic Video Online) With unprecedented intimate access, Girls' Night Out approaches the prevalent and dangerous culture of binge drinking and young women, with the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the sometimes wounded heart of a teenage girl.
- Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol and Tobacco (streaming, Academic Video Online) In Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco, Jean Kilbourne exposes the manipulative marketing strategies and tactics used by the tobacco and alcohol industries to keep Americans hooked on their dangerous products. Illustrating her analysis with hundreds of current advertising examples from mainstream and trade sources, Kilbourne presents a compelling argument that these cynical industries have a clear and deep understanding of the psychology of addiction and an understanding they exploit to create and feed a life-threatening dependency on their products.
- Alcohol: the deceptive drug (streaming, Academic Video Online) Discusses the effects of alcohol on the body, including why some people develop drinking problems while others do not, whether or not there is a point of no return when the liver has been damaged, and whether or not moderate drinking can be good for people.
- Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad? (streaming, Academic Video Online) Is occasional binge drinking that much worse than drinking small amounts of alcohol each day? Considering it is a drug that has been enjoyed since the dawn of civilisation, the science around alcohol is surprisingly vague and conflicting. Doctors and genetically identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken investigate the latest science and put their own bodies to the test to see how alcohol really affects us. You'll never look at a night out, or your hangover, in the same way again.
- The Anonymous People (streaming, Kanopy) THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Deeply entrenched social stigma and mass participation in widely successful anonymous 12-step groups have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition.
More Resources on Alcohol & Film
- Louis Theroux : drinking to oblivion (streaming, Academic Video Online) At a time when alcohol-related deaths are on the rise, Louis investigates the problem of alcoholism. Heading for Europe's largest liver transplant centre, King's College Hospital in London, he sees first-hand the critical physical side effects of alcoholism and learns about the challenges doctors, patients and patients' families face in trying to treat it.
