‘Attica’ Directors on Using Disturbing Footage: ‘You Had to See the Horror of It’
The directors acknowledged that some of the film’s footage is hard to watch, but said “I don’t think we even put in the worst.”
The directors acknowledged that some of the film’s footage is hard to watch, but said “I don’t think we even put in the worst.”
Fifty years later, a new documentary examines the legacy of the prison riot, and how the media helped sell a false narrative around what really happened.