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Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing

2024 · 85 min

A somber, reflective documentary that moves quietly through historical injustice, asking you to sit with grief and the slow work of reckoning.

Directed by
Rosemarie Reed
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Ben Whishaw
Overview
Follows the life of Alan Turing and roughly 49,000 other men who were convicted and imprisoned for the "crime" of gross indecency.

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Directed by
Rosemarie Reed
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Ben Whishaw
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • justice
  • identity
  • sexuality
  • guilt
  • memory
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None
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Rosemarie Reed
Starring
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Runtime
85 min
Languages
English

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