Fame Asylum

Fame Asylum was a 2006 documentary that followed the progress of a boy band made up of four asylum seekers and aired on Channel 4. The Guardian said it was among the worst ideas in TV history, and the programme was also nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. It is available to watch on 40D, and has some accompanying learning resources. The...

Asylum in the Streets

Inside Pennhurst Asylum: Understanding Disabilities Through The Decades /

Pennhurst is a story of segregation, abandonment, and the meaning of home as told by the people that lived in, worked at, and crusaded for one of the largest and oldest Intellectual and Developmental Disability Institutions in the United States. The facility, in its closing, challenged society's perception of those with intellectual disabilities and ultimately fought for better rights.

Aurora’s Garden Asylum / 2023

In 1912, a mysterious patient is brought at the asylum. Little the doctor knew, that his would be the only secrets revealed.

Asylum / 1954

Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.

Chiedo asilo / 19797.116 voti

Roberto, il maestro di un asilo, sceglie di coinvolgere i suoi piccolissimi allievi cercando di essere il più possibile come loro. Tra lui e i bambini nasce una simbiosi che continua anche fuori dalle mura dell'istituto, per esempio al mare, in vacanza. Ma non tutti condividono il suo metodo.

Asylum Street Spankers: Re-Assembly / 2005

Re-Assembly documents the monumental Tenth Anniversary Reunion of the Legendary Asylum Street Spankers. On August 14, 2004, twenty-one past and present Spankers performed twenty-nine of their best-loved songs before two sold out audiences at the Texas Union Theatre in their hometown of Austin. These concerts were filmed, then edited together to create the definitive three-hour portrait of this milestone concert by God’s favorite band.

Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum) / 2023

The film dives into 1970's Britain; the birth of punk and the formation of Crass, with an in-depth look at their art, music and ethos.

Asylum for Shut-Ins: Video Psychotherapy /

The Doctor is a sadistic, power-mad ventriloquist dummy who administers doses of mind bending video ultra-violence and savage social commentary. He delivers his demented therapy with machinegun-like collages of horror movie clips... audio and video samples fused together in a musical tapestry of terror, madness, and destruction... coming attractions for the end of sanity.

The New Asylums / 2005

There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America's prisons and jails.

Insanity: The Asylum Volume 2 / 2012

Shaun T says, “The work doesn’t start until you get tired,” and when you Push Play on Volume 2 you will know what that means. Volume 1 taught you the fundamentals of sports performance, and now you’ll build on that foundation with training techniques used by professional athletes to separate them from the competition. Shaun challenges you with...

31/75: Asylum / 19756.01 voti

A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete panorama. The landscape changes with the advancing seasons and becomes slowly delirious in its technical alienation.

Political Asylum / 1975

After assassinating a government official, guerrilla takes refuge in a foreign embassy. Tense standoff ensues.

Asylum Session / 2009

Hiyoko wants to become an artist like her mother, but her father would prefer that she took a different career path. Enraged when she notices that he took all paintings done by her mother from the house, she decides to run away. Unable to find a place to sleep among her acquaintances, she ends up at Asylum Stadium, an abandoned field that is shelter for many homeless, but that is about to be torn down by the government. There she meets Akira, a strange individual capable of flying.

Battle of the Asylums / 2018

Silent Asylum / 2014

A Double Caprice at the Asylum / 2019

A film found in an abandoned psychiatric institution (circa 1987-2018).

Asylum / 2007

This documentary focuses on a little-known episode in the recent history of Uruguay: how hundreds of Uruguayan citizens took refuge in the Mexican embassy at the time of the military dictatorship. Between 1975 and 1976, Mexico was the only country whose embassy gave shelter to people persecuted by the regime, and this sparked off a difficult period in the relations between the two nations. We learn about conditions at the embassy at that time and how the fugitives lived. Sixteen of the men and women involved talk about what that period was like and the events that led up to this confrontation between the two countries. The documentary is also a homage to the Mexican ambassador, don Vicente Muñoz Arroyo.

The Asylum / 2015

The lives of two refugees intertwine over a pond which acts as a sanctuary for them as they look toward liberation.