Timothy Leary

Born: 1920-10-22

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired in June, the following month. He was fired, for "failure to keep classroom appointments", with his pay docked on April 30. (Wikipedia)


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Nice Dreams

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Released: 1981-07-24

Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this...

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Shocker

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Released: 1989-03-23

About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker...

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How the Beatles Changed the World

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Released: 2017-10-23

The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the...

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HyperNormalisation

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We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie....

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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Released: 2013-11-23

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-08-13

The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music...

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Roadside Prophets

as Salvadore
Released: 1992-03-27

On a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road on his 1957...

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LSD: Trip to Where?

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Released: 1968-01-01

Three sailors are talked into trying LSD and marijuana--which, this film implies, are basically...

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Night Visions

as New Age Minister
Released: 1990-11-30

A Los Angeles detective teams up with a psychic to hunt down a serial killer.

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Rude Awakening

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Released: 1989-08-16

In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI,...

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My Psychedelic Love Story

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-10-22

An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed...

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Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me

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Released: 1992-05-21

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Ted & Venus

as Judge William H. Converse
Released: 1991-08-08

Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his...

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The Source

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Released: 1999-01-23

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University...

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Fatal Skies

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Released: 1990-07-18

Skydivers drop in on a suspicious quarry.

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Hippies

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-06-12

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Stuff

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Released: 1993-05-19

A 12-minute documentary about the house of RHCP guitarist John Frusciante. The film's main...

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Mission Mind Control

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Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on...

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Anarchy TV

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Released: 1998-01-31

A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a...

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The Psychedelic Experience

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Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions...

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Medium Rare

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Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2016-08-26

Icons of '60s counterculture, Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Ram Dass became estranged...

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Cityscrapes: Los Angeles

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Released: 1996-01-11

"CITYSCRAPES" takes you on a 24-hour voyeuristic journey through the bedrooms, bathrooms, bars,...

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Return Engagement

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Released: 1983-07-09

Return Engagement is a 1983 documentary film directed by Alan Rudolph about the tour debate...

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Conceiving Ada

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Released: 1999-02-19

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into...

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Surviving You, Always

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Released: 2021-02-04

The proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete...

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Hofmann's Potion: The Pioneers of LSD

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Released: 2002-09-01

Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to "tune in, turn on and drop out," lysergic acid...

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Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

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Released: 1971-04-11

The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's...

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Cyberpunk

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Released: 1990-01-28

Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic...

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Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-04-19

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of...

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The Transcendental Object at the End of Time

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Released: 2014-11-16

An audio-visual journey through the mind of Terence McKenna.

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Be-In

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Released: 1967-02-01

Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten...

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NBC television special: The Pursuit of Pleasure

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Released: 1967-05-08

A special documentary dealing with topics as narcotics, sex, promiscuity, fads, pop culture and...

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Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

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LSD Guru Tim Leary teaches us all to die by dying himself in what he calls his "custom death"....

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Larry Flynt for President

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Assembled from never before seen footage shot in 1983, this film documents controversial Hustler...

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Growing Up in America

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Released: 1989-04-16

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Fix: The Ministry Movie

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Released: 2011-07-21

Provides an insider's view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the...

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John & Yoko's Year of Peace

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-01-01

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We're All Devo

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Released: 1983-01-01

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You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

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Released: 1964-12-31

Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting...

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How To Operate Your Brain

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Bill's Hat

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Released: 1967-01-01

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat –...

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Energy!!! The Movie

as Robert Pearce
Released: 1993-07-22

Starring Timothy Leary

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Bed Peace

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Released: 1969-03-24

John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with...

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Released: 2007-07-16

5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 ...

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How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis

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Released: 1966-08-28

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Frasier

as Hank (voice)
First aired: 1993-09-16

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a...

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Moonlighting

as Wynn Deaupayne
First aired: 1985-03-03

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in...

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The Merv Griffin Show

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First aired: 1962-10-01

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...

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Blossom

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First aired: 1990-07-05

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Space Ghost Coast to Coast

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First aired: 1994-04-15

A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show...

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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

as Dr. Milo
First aired: 1993-08-27

A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from...

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Prisoners of Gravity

as Self
First aired: 1989-08-21

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that...

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History 101

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2020-05-22

Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs,...

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Super Force

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-10-05

Super Force is an action-adventure TV series about a former astronaut who uses an advanced...

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Helter Skelter: An American Myth

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2020-07-26

The untold story behind cult leader Charles Manson and his followers' heinous crimes as told...

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