Titicut Follies
Don't turn your back on this film if you value your mind or your life.
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
Produced by Zipporah Films
A harrowing, unflinching documentary exposé of institutional brutality and dehumanization within a psychiatric prison, presented with observational directness that refuses to look away.
A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.
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