2: Out of Sight | Madness

Duration: 58'31''

Synopsis

A look at the rise and fall of the asylum. Conceived as a safe haven for the insane, the reality was somewhat more brutal as typified by the mass murder of the insane in Nazi Germany. But have attitudes to madness changed over 400yrs?

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