Special retrospective programs have included the films of The Maysles Brothers, Kartemquin Films, Frederick Wiseman, and Les Blank.
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman observed the hospital for twenty-nine days, depicting the harsh treatment the inmates received by the guards and how the doctors were not aware of the proper treatment the inmates needed.
Chapter 18, a letter from Shtrum's mother, Anna, has been dramatized for the stage and film The Last Letter (2002), directed by Frederick Wiseman, and starring Catherine Samie.
Film critic Roger Ebert described the film as "unique and original", and it "feels as much like cinema verite as the works of Frederick Wiseman."
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Titicut Follies is a 1967 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall, about the patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.