Lee Grant pulls back the curtain on America's hidden war—happening in kitchens and bedrooms nationwide.
Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the powerful, if harrowing portrait of a life lived in constant fear of the people closest to you. Intimate interviews with the victims and children of the cycle are combined with the eye opening and heart breaking stories of the abusers themselves to take you deeper into every facet of these American lives.
Direction
Grant's Oscar-winning eye for human detail elevates every frame.
Editing
Seamless weaving of abuser and victim testimony creates unbearable tension.
Writing
Narration that trusts silence over sensationalism.
Director
Lee Grant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the 1989 Violence Against Women Act advocacy wave, Grant's film became classroom curriculum before streaming existed.
Grant funded reshoots personally after network executives demanded 'more hopeful endings'—she refused.
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