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The Sleep Room is a 1998 Canadian television movie about experiments on Canadian mental patients that were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s by Donald Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA's MKUltra program. It originally aired as a miniseries and is based on the book In The Sleep Room: The Story of CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada by Anne ...
CBC. Publication date. 1998. Topics. CIA, MKULTRA, Mind Control, Psychic Driving. Language. English. The CIA and MKULTRA in Canada. The Sleep Room, directed by Anne Wheeler, recalls a series of barbaric experiments conducted on mental patients over a nine-year period beginning in 1955.
- 179 min
Mar 31, 1998 · The Sleep Room: Directed by Anne Wheeler. With Leon Pownall, Macha Grenon, Nicola Cavendish, Gabrielle Rose. Based on a true story, this production relates the tale of two American lawyers who try to bring the U.S. government to its knees. In the early 1950s, the CIA funds a Montreal psychiatric hospital to do some research on mind control.
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- Biography, Drama
- Anne Wheeler
- 1998-03-31
Mar 31, 1998 · 1998 Drama · 3h 3m. We've checked all the major streaming services, and this title is not found on any of them right now. Get Notified. At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques.
2h. TCM Emails. Sign Up. Based on the true story of a Montreal psychiatrist, Dr. Ewan Cameron, who received funding from the CIA in the 1950s for brainwashing experiments on unsuspecting patients as part of his efforts to cure mental illness. Thirty years later, some of the patients seek justice with the help of two...
1998. 4 hr 0 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. The story of Dr. Ewan Cameron, a Canadian psychiatrist whose efforts to cure mental illness allegedly included brainwashing experiments funded by the CIA....
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The Sleep Room. 1998. Directed by Anne Wheeler. For Their Pain, For Their Lives, For Their Futures. The Truth Must Be Told. At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques.
