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Rating: 6.7/10 Steve Hupp hasn't exactly led a charmed life. He's a high school dropout and a convicted bank robber. He's also a noted shaman who many people look to for guidance as they fight to ease the lasting effects of trauma in their lives. Hupp is part of a growing movement that's chronicled in the VICE documentary Kentucky Ayahuasca, a passionate pursuit to legitimize and legalize the medicinal use of the powerful plant-based psychedelic. Tests have been performed using ayahuasca in Latin American countries like Peru and Brazil, and the results have proven promising in the treatment of PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, opiate addiction, and the treatment of depression. In territories like the United States, however, it has been banned as a harmful narcotic akin to heroin. Advocates say this classification unfairly prohibits what should be considered a therapeutic remedy of profoundly spiritual proportions. According to Hupp, this drug c

Rating: 8.1/10 In the gripping and traumatic feature-length documentary 13th, critically acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay characterizes the modern-day U.S. criminal justice system as a direct extension of slavery. This Oscar-nominated film exposes the real motives behind the record number of incarcerations in the U.S., and smartly harkens back to this phenomenon's shameful origins over a century ago. The United States holds the record for the most incarcerations per capita in the entire world. Lawmakers and penal system representatives claim this unprecedented enslavement is the byproduct when one is tasked to keep their communities safe from violent or destructive criminal activity. But the overwhelming evidence - as presented in the film - indicates otherwise. The film begins by outlining the lasting reach of popular mythmaking as epitomized in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, which successfully resuscitated the Ku Klux Klan and promoted the image of th

Rating: 8.6/10 In Moscow, VICE co-founder Shane Smith's in depth interview with controversial NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden serves as the backdrop for a story on the state of government sponsored surveillance both at home in the US and around the world. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Rating: 7.2/10 In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Rating: 5.7:10 A woman (Heather Graham) faces deadly consequences for abandoning her loving relationship with her boyfriend to pursue exciting sexual scenarios with a mysterious celebrity mountaineer (Joseph Fiennes). H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Rating: 5.1/10 An American writer (Audi England) in 1940 Paris pens erotic stories after finding her lover (Costas Mandylor) with another. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!

Rating: 7.1/10 Adrian Lyne's adaptation of Nabokov's controversial novel, the classic tale of a man's inappropriate obsession with a beautiful young girl. H ome  |  Movies  |  Documentaries  |  More Don't Forget To Share!