Mental: A History of the Madhouse (2010)
59m
Running Time
May 25, 2010Release Date
Mental: A History of the Madhouse (2010)
59m
Running Time
May 25, 2010Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Tamsin Greig
Narrator

Peter Barham
Himself

Maggi Chapman
Herself

Colin Skinner
Cinematography

Chris Boulding
Director / Writer

Bill Thomas
Art Direction

Richard Touch
Production Design

Joe Taylor
Cinematography
Details.
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