Betrayal at Attica - streaming on hbomax 8/1/21
Betrayal at Attica is a documentary film about the rebellion and retaking at Attica Prison in September, 1971.
The evidence presented in this film has been hidden by the State of New York for 50 years. Radical lawyer Elizabeth Fink found the photos and videos in a state warehouse when she represented the Attica Brothers.
Director Michael Hull worked with Fink to digitize the archive for preservation and distribution. Betrayal at Attica uses only material from this collection, and Fink’s final interview, conducted one month before her death.
As part of the process of creating this film, the entire Fink archive has been declared to be in the public domain, and Hull has provided access to historians, scholars, filmmakers, artists, and students.
Betrayal at Attica
“They fired 4500 rounds. They knew no one had a gun.”
— Elizabeth fink
“As soon as I got to the third floor I was kicked in the testicles and went back down the stairs, head over heels..they beat me up the stairs again, [I was struck] on my back, head, neck, arms, shoulders, ribs, kidney area. I was urinating blood.”
— gary haynes
“If they had only waited until today there would be now 40 or 41 people still alive in this universe of ours. They would not wait because these men were expendable. Guards, prisoners, had no meaning in the scheme of things in our white totalitarian world.”