Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook (1997)

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It was a nightmare that shocked all of America and rocketed Geraldo Rivera to national prominence, when in 1972, with a stolen key, he entered Staten Island's Willowbrook State School and revealed conditions in which developmentally disabled children were found to be living in their own filth, with… More It was a nightmare that shocked all of America and rocketed Geraldo Rivera to national prominence, when in 1972, with a stolen key, he entered Staten Island's Willowbrook State School and revealed conditions in which developmentally disabled children were found to be living in their own filth, with a resident-to-staff ratio of 30- or 40-to-one, and residents had a 100% incidence of hepatitis within the first six weeks of entering Willowbrook.

"Unforgotten: Twenty-five Years After Willowbrook" is a documentary narrated by Danny Aiello that recounts the scandalous conditions at what was then the world's largest institution for children with developmental disabilities -- a resident population of approximately 5,300 -- and follows the lives of individual residents and their families.