“…an extraordinarily candid picture of a modern Bedlam, where the horrors are composed of indifference and patronizing concern.” (New York Times)

Frederick Wiseman’s groundbreaking and controversial 1967 documentary, Titicut Follies, was filmed at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts. Wiseman’s landmark documentary provides a raw and candid perspective on the institutionalization of inmates in the United States. Called “a nightmare of ghoulish obscenities” by Boston Superior Court Judge Harry Kalus, whose ruling banned public screenings for over twenty years, the film documents the various—and often vile—ways the inmates were treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists. Now, 50 years after the release of the film, a 4K scan from the original 16mm negative of the film is back on the big screen.