The Lynchburg story [videorecording] : eugenic sterilization in America / produced in association with Discovery Networks and Channel Four ; producer, Bruce Eadie ; directed by Stephen Trombley.

Contributor Eadie, Bruce.

Imprint:New York, NY : Filmakers Library, Inc., [2000-?].

Description1 videodisc (51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Videodisc release of the 1993 film

Note:This film charts the history of the American eugenics program under which 80,000 inmates in state institutions have been compulsorily sterilized. In Virginia between 1905 and 1972, several thousand children deemed by the state as unfit to reproduce were taken from their families and forced to live in the Lynchburg Colony. Victims recall their experiences of beatings, solitary confinement and other abuses.

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