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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.
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.
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- Biography, Drama
- Anne Wheeler
- 1998-03-31
A film called The Sleep Room highlighted the brainwashing experiments, including electroshock and sleep therapy, conducted on psychiatric patients by Dr. Ewen Cameron at Montreal's...
- 21 min
- 230.9K
- The Fifth Estate
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...
In the early 1950s, the CIA funds a Montreal psychiatric hospital to do some research on mind control. Thirty-some years later, the patients want justice...
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