With Intent to Harm
| With Intent to Harm | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Stephen Ujlaki |
| Written by | Stephen Ujlaki |
| Produced by | Stephen Ujlaki |
Release date |
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Running time | 28 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
With Intent to Harm is a 1973 American documentary short directed by Stephen Ujlaki, filmed inside four Massachusetts state prisons. A companion piece to Ujlaki's Three Thousand Years and Life (1973), it documents conditions of confinement and the prisoners' rights movement that followed the 1971 Attica uprising.[1][2]
Synopsis
Shot inside the Norfolk, Framingham, Walpole and Concord state prisons in Massachusetts, the film depicts life behind bars and the emerging prisoners' rights movement, describing the plight of inmates deprived of most human and civil rights.[3][2]
Reception
Reviewing it alongside Three Thousand Years and Life in The Boston Globe, Richard Burgin described the two works as "very direct and fast-moving polemic films" meant "to inform, to anger, to be moving, [and] to resonate."[1] ABC News called it "the best prison documentary ever made."[3] The film circulated nationally through churches, universities and community groups,[2][3] and was presented at a documentary symposium at the University of Maine.[4]
See also
References
- 1 2 Burgin, Richard (5 May 1974). "Walpole films anger and resonate". The Boston Globe. p. 168. Retrieved 25 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 "Prison Film To Show". Sentinel Star. Orlando, Florida. 3 November 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 25 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 "STAND to Probe Prisons in Talks Open to Public". Bridgeport Sunday Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. 25 February 1973. p. 76. Retrieved 25 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Rehabilitation, not retribution, is SCAR's goal". Bangor Daily News. 23 March 1973. p. 13. Retrieved 25 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.