Adam Jessel
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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.
Mental: A History of the Madhouse

A look at the case of Justin Fashanu and gay footballers.
Britain's Gay Footballers

Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates how a teenage gap year student became one of Britain’s worst ever paedophiles.
The Gap Year Paedophile

Director Hannah Livingston spends 6 months tracking two of America's most radical Christian hate groups - a notorious pastor from Arizona and a network of extremist preachers.
America's Hate Preachers

The story of Unity Mitford, the young and unsteady British aristocrat who fell for Hitler during the 1930s.