Betrayal at Attica

Resource Information

The work Betrayal at Attica represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Betrayal at Attica

Statement of responsibility

director, Michael J. Hull

Contributor

• Hull, Michael J.
• Collective Eye Films

Film director

• Hull, Michael J.

Publisher

• Collective Eye Films

Subject

• Attica Correctional Facility
• Attica Correctional Facility
• Documentaires
• Documentaries and Factual Films
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Films autres que de fiction
• Mutineries dans les prisons -- New York (État) | Attica
• New York (State) -- Attica
• Nonfiction films
• Nonfiction films
• Prison riots
• Prison riots -- New York (State) | Attica
• Prison violence
• Prison violence -- New York (State) | Attica
• Prisoners -- Civil rights
• Prisoners -- Civil rights -- New York (State) | Attica
• Prisonniers -- Droits -- New York (État) | Attica
• Prisonniers noirs américains -- Droits -- New York (État) | Attica
• Torture
• Torture -- New York (State) | Attica
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
• Violence dans les prisons -- New York (État) | Attica
• African American prisoners -- Civil rights -- New York (State) | Attica

Genre

• Documentaries and Factual Films
• Documentary films
• Films autres que de fiction
• Nonfiction films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
• Documentaires

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

On September 13, 1971, the State of New York shot and killed 39 of its citizens, injured hundreds more, and tortured the survivors. More than 1,200 men were stripped naked, forced to crawl across a muddy cellblock yard, and then run through a gauntlet of state employees who beat them with nightsticks, rifle butts, pickaxe handles, and other weapons. They were forced to run barefoot over broken glass and kicked down stairwells. The horrors of that day still haunt the handful of men who remain with us to tell the story. For fifty years their tales have been met with disbelief and scorn by many, including some who claim the retaking was an orderly affair and guns were used sparingly. The evidence presented in this film has been hidden by the State of New York for 50 years. Radical lawyer Elizabeth Fink found the photos and videos in a state warehouse when she represented the Attica Brothers

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Dewey number

365.97479

Language note

English dialogue; English subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

HV9475.N716

LC item number

B48 2022

Runtime

84

Technique

live action