Mental: A History of the Madhouse
2010, English. Directed by Chris Boulding.
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.
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- 0h 59m
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- English
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- Released
- 25 May 2010
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Chris Boulding, Peter Scott
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Mental: A History of the Madhouse isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 25 May 2010. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Mental: A History of the Madhouse?
Mental: A History of the Madhouse (2010) was directed by Chris Boulding and stars Tamsin Greig, Peter Barham, Maggi Chapman.