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Mental: A History of the Madhouse

05/25/2010

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0hr 59min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Tamsin Greig
  • Peter Barham
  • Maggi Chapman

    Directors

  • Chris Boulding
  • Bill Thomas

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC
  • Blakeway Associates

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Tamsin Greig

Narrator

Peter Barham

Himself

Maggi Chapman

Herself

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