Titicut Follies – Mental Institution Documentary
Posted on: June 4, 2009
Posted in: Documentary, Featured, Prison Life, Video
WARNING!! This is very graphic!! Titicut Follies is a black and white 1967 documentary film by United States filmmaker Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of inmates / patients at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The title is taken from a talent show put on by the hospital’s inmates. (The talent show was named after the Wampanoag word for the nearby Taunton River.) In 1967 the film won awards in Germany and Italy. It was one of a number of films made by Wiseman that examined social institutions: hospital, police, school, etc., in the United States.


(10 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)
June 5th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Does it work for anyone? Piotr
June 5th, 2009 at 10:24 am
this is a classic.