
Mental: A History of the Madhouse

Watch movie: Mental: A History of the Madhouse Released in (2010) produced by United Kingdom, UK, The movie categorized in Documentary, History, and content rating 59min with duration 59 min Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Chris Boulding. Documentary which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institutions all across the country. Today, most mental patients, or service users as they are now called, live out in the community and the asylums have all but disappeared. Through powerful testimonies from patients, nurses and doctors, the film explores this seismic revolution and what it tells us about society's changing attitudes to mental illness over the last sixty years.
Genre: Documentary, History
Actor: Tamsin Greig, Peter Barham, Maggi Chapman
Director: Chris Boulding
Country: United Kingdom, UK
Produced By: BBC, Blakeway Associates
Runtime: 59
Release: 2010
Rating: 4.5 out of 10
Language: English,
Views: 349
Content Rating:59min
Quality: DVD
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