Look For The Name Of A Video That They Made Us Watch In School.?

This is going to come out as rambling, but 20 years ago there was a movie that I think had a young Jonathon Brandis in it. It was a made-for-school tv program in like three or four parts. He basically went to this other world (?) and encountered these people who were doing drugs, and other such activities. Like one set of people were smoking cigarettes and they looked happy, but when he put on some magic glasses he could see that they were really dying people. I seem to remember that he had a special “tool”, (like the glasses) for different situations. If you have any clue what I’m talking about, please let me know.