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Secret People: The Naked Face of Leprosy in America 1999
"The voices of those living in the last remaining leprosy sanatorium, in Carville, Louisiana, USA."
Overview
Secret People: The Naked Face of Leprosy in America is a 1998 documentary by John Anderson and Laura Harrison that chronicles the stories of patients forced into quarantine at the Carville Leprosarium in Louisiana. The 59-minute film highlights the stigma, discrimination, and forced isolation of hundreds of Americans with Hansen’s disease (leprosy) during the early-to-mid 20th century. Although it has conjured horrific images of society's most feared outcasts ever since Biblical days, leprosy i
Director: John Anderson