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This is a list of psychedelic documentaries, or documentary films and television episodes about psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), 5-MeO-DMT, and ayahuasca. It also includes documentaries about MDMA.
Films
[edit]- 5MEO: Are Some Doors Better Left Unopened? (2020)
- A New Understanding: Science of Psilocybin (2015)
- Acid Tests (1993)
- AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness (2021)
- AYA: Awakenings (2013)
- Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman (2018)
- Ayahuasca: Vine of the Soul (2010)
- Becoming Nobody (2019)
- Better Living Through Chemistry (2021)
- Bufo Alvarius: The Underground Secret (2018)
- Dante: 500 Miles on Psychedelics (2026)
- Descending the Mountain (2021)
- Dirty Pictures (2010)
- DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010)
- Dosed (2019)
- Dosed 2: The Trip of a Lifetime (2022)
- Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)
- Fantastic Fungi (2019)
- Feed Your Head (2010)
- From Shock to Awe (2018)
- Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)
- Hofmann's Potion: The Pioneers of LSD (2002)
- Icaros: A Vision (2016)
- In Waves and War (2024)
- Journeys (2026)
- Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness (2019)
- Magic Medicine (2018)
- Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
- Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman (2009)
- María Sabina, Mujer Espíritu (1979)
- My Psychedelic Love Story (2020)
- Narrenschwämme – von Pilzen, Gordon Wasson und anderen Sonderlingen (Magic Mushrooms – From Mushrooms, Gordon Wasson and Other Eccentrics [The Mushroom Man]) (1996)
- Neurons to Nirvana: Understanding Psychedelic Medicines (2013)
- Orange Sunshine (2016)
- Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey (2008)
- Prophet of Ecstasy (2026)
- Psyched Out (2018)
- Psychedelia (2021)
- Psychedelic Revolution: The Secret History of the LSD Trade (2023)
- Psychonautics: A Comic’s Exploration of Psychedelics (2018)
- Shamans of the Amazon: A Timeless Journey (2001)
- Terence McKenna's True Hallucinations (2016)
- The Last Shaman (2016)
- The Medicine (2019)
- The Peyote Road: Ancient Religion in Contemporary Crisis (1994)
- The Psychedelic Drug Trial (2021)
- The Psychedelic Pioneers (2005)
- The Sacred Science (2011)
- The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD (2011)
- The Sunshine Makers (2015)
- The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof's Journey of Consciousness (2020)
- Timothy Leary's Dead (1996)
- Timothy Leary's Last Trip (1997)
- Trip of Compassion (2019)
- Unraveling the Dream: Psychedelics, Awakening, and the Brain (2026)
- What a Trip: The Rick Doblin Story (2027)
TV shows and episodes
[edit]- Everyman, Season 12, Episodes 10 and 11: The Beyond Within: The Rise of LSD and The Fall of LSD (1986)
- Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (many episodes) (2016–2021)
- How to Change Your Mind (all episodes) (2022)
- I Am Rebel, Season 1, Episode 3: The Love Drug (2016)[1]
- The Business of Drugs, Season 1, Episode 2: Synthetics (2020)
- The Mind, Explained, Season 1, Episode 5: Psychedelics (2019)
- Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, Season 3, Episode 2: LSD and Season 3, Episode 5: MDMA (2023)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Hamilton Morris (writer), Alexander Shulgin (subject), Ann Shulgin (guest), Jason Wallach (guest), David E. Nichols (guest), Rick Doblin (guest), Raffi Kahatchadorourian (guest), Wendy Tucker (guest), David Meyer (guest), Paul Daley (guest), Julie Holland (guest), others (19 June 2016). "The Love Drug". I Am Rebel. Season 1. Episode 3. National Geographic. Archived from the original on 23 November 2025. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
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