2021·Documentary·1h 57m
7.1
★
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.
Directed by Traci A. Curry and Stanley Nelson
uprising
prison riot
attica
hostages
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Cast
Clarence Jones
Self
John Johnson
Self
Nelson Rockefeller
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Stanley Nelson
Director
Stanley Nelson
Writer
Vinnie Malhotra
Executive Producer
Stanley Nelson
Producer
Popular Reviews
44 reviews
Will Gosper
7.0★ · 10/26/24
US Prison Guards and some fuckwit called Rockefeller are the villains, oh shock me
US Prison Guards and some fuckwit called Rockefeller are the villains, oh shock me
Mickey R
7.0★ · 03/23/22
Great use of archival footage, great structuring. For the most part, I just think it’s important that the survivors got to tell thier story before it was too late.
Great use of archival footage, great structuring. For the most part, I just think it’s important that the survivors got to tell thier story before it was too late.
monty
6.6★ · 03/20/22
wonderful insight into an event i had no idea about. truly heartwrenching. it fizzles down in the middle but picks up at the end. could've certainly deserved an extra half or full star if it was just 20 minutes shorter
wonderful insight into an event i had no idea about. truly heartwrenching. it fizzles down in the middle but picks up at the end. could've certainly deserved an extra half or full star if it was just 20 minutes shorter
Tristan Stewart
9.0★ · 03/17/22
This was nuts. Best doc of the Oscar contenders by far.
This was nuts. Best doc of the Oscar contenders by far.
Mateo FernandezPRO
7.0★ · 03/13/22
Attica is such a powerful film that makes you really happy for what you have.
Learning about what happened at that prison was so engaging and so interesting. That last hour had me so nervous and scared because I had never heard of what happened before. It gets sad. Really really sad. I cried a lot during the last 20 minutes. How they treated human beings like that. It makes you realize how America was and how we are still dealing with some of these issues today.
A problem that I really did have with this was that it felt and was so long. It really didn’t have to be 2 hr. I felt the runtime and lots of things were repeated and some rungs were in there that never come back up that never needed to be said.
Overall, I really enjoyed this Doc and really educated me on this topic. Really crazy story.
Learning about what happened at that prison was so engaging and so interesting. That last hour had me so nervous and scared because I had never heard of what happened before. It gets sad. Really really sad. I cried a lot during the last 20 minutes. How they treated human beings like that. It makes you realize how America was and how we are still dealing with some of these issues today.
A problem that I really did have with this was that it felt and was so long. It really didn’t have to be 2 hr. I felt the runtime and lots of things were repeated and some rungs were in there that never come back up that never needed to be said.
Overall, I really enjoyed this Doc and really educated me on this topic. Really crazy story.
Attica is such a powerful film that makes you really happy for what you have.
Learning about what happened at that prison was so engaging and so interesting. That last hour had me so nervous and scared because I had never heard of what happened before. It gets sad. Really really sad. I cried a lot during the last 20 minutes. How they treated human beings like that. It makes you realize how America was and how we are still dealing with some of these issues today.
A problem that I really did have with this was that it felt and was so long. It really didn’t have to be 2 hr. I felt the runtime and lots of things were repeated and some rungs were in there that never come back up that never needed to be said.
Overall, I really enjoyed this Doc and really educated me on this topic. Really crazy story.
Learning about what happened at that prison was so engaging and so interesting. That last hour had me so nervous and scared because I had never heard of what happened before. It gets sad. Really really sad. I cried a lot during the last 20 minutes. How they treated human beings like that. It makes you realize how America was and how we are still dealing with some of these issues today.
A problem that I really did have with this was that it felt and was so long. It really didn’t have to be 2 hr. I felt the runtime and lots of things were repeated and some rungs were in there that never come back up that never needed to be said.
Overall, I really enjoyed this Doc and really educated me on this topic. Really crazy story.