Counter Culture Movies

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...

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground...

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more...

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

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....

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

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

In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of...

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

Parents in a small, conservative community don't think that the sex drive is a normal thing for children to experience. So much so, that they label...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

Unable or unwilling to conform to the rigid atmosphere of Washington and Lee College as a freshman, Ed bailed out after a brief stint there to...

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....

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...

This documentary, made over a period of eight years, tells the remarkable story of an extremely influential rock'n'roll band. Starting from their...

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...