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Betrayal at Attica

Betrayal at Attica

DVD 2022

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...

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Description:
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical
video file DVD video
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: not rated
Notes:
Title from sell sheet
Originally produced in 2021
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); closed-captioned
DVD, wide screen
English dialogue
Control Number:
3202955
UPC:
702338049538
Other Authors:
Collective Eye Films, publisher
Hull, Michael J., film director
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