Attica (2021)
September 9, 20211h 57mEN
6.9
43 votes
Overview
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.
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Traci A. CurryWriter
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English
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Showtime Documentary FilmsFirelight FilmsTopic Studios
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CinemaSerf
6.0This is a rather standard documentary telling of the revolt by prisoners of New York State's eponymous maximum security prison. Using a combination of newsreel archive footage and modern-day interviews, Stanley Nelson endeavours to explain just why this happened and what led to a final solution that shocked a nation. It's clear that tensions were running high between the inmates and those who were guarding them. A toxic environment of racism, bigotry and bullying set amidst some fairly abject squalor and, as just about everyone agreed, some inhuman conditions in which they were expected to liv…
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