Stanley Nelson, Jr. and Traci A. Curry shed light on making the documentary and interviewing subjects involved in the historic event. When asked why Nelson Jr. chose a documentary on the Attica prison ...

If you are looking for information on Attica (2021), you are at the right place. The horror documentary film is set in the summer of 1971 tracing the conflicts between the guards and inmates at the ...

Stanley Nelson's film lets us see — really see — what happened at Attica like nothing before it. Back in the ’60s and ’70s, when the press was first discovering itself as “media,” there were any ...

Here are some of the people who made the searing new documentary “Attica” possible: elderly ex-cons, dumpster divers and, perhaps most strange of all, Richard Nixon. Director Stanley Nelson and ...

On September 9, 1971, inmates at Attica Prison in upstate New York, driven past their breaking points by their obscene living conditions, seized control of part of the building, taking hostages to ...

Fifty years ago in September, prisoners took over the state penitentiary in Attica, NY, an event that still reverberates today. It has endured in the collective memory not so much because of the ...

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CARNAGE INSTEAD OF CARE Once the tear gas cleared, 29 inmates and 10 hostages were killed, with 89 others wounded. (Image courtesy of Showtime Documentary Films) “I remember when it happened. I was 19 ...

The Showtime documentary, directed by Stanley Nelson, looks back on the 1971 prison uprising with the benefit of 50 years’ hindsight. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

The events at Attica Correctional Facility that began on September 9, 1971, became the largest and bloodiest prison rebellion to date. Now, 50 years after the five-day uprising — which left 29 inmates ...

In the final moments of the new documentary "Attica," from acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson, one of the men who tried to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the 1971 Attica prison uprising looks into ...

The 12th edition of DOC NYC kicks off today — exactly one month before the AMPAS documentary branch begins voting to determine the 2022 Oscar documentary shortlist. The nine-day affair, which runs ...