Mental: A History of the Madhouse (2010)
Mental: A History of the Madhouse
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.
Casting arrow_drop_down
Tamsin Greig
as Narrator
as Narrator
Peter Barham
as Himself
as Himself
Maggi Chapman
as Herself
as Herself
Crew arrow_drop_down
Colin Skinner
Cinematography
Cinematography
Chris Boulding
Director
Director
Bill Thomas
Art Direction
Art Direction
Joe Taylor
Cinematography
Cinematography
Ian Meller
Editor
Editor
Adam Jessel
Producer
Producer
Richard Touch
Production Design
Production Design
Chris Boulding
Writer
Writer
Peter Scott
Writer
Writer
