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Chosen

Chosen
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Runtime:
98 minutes
Producer:
Brian Woods and Chris Eley
Director:
Brian Woods
Released
2008
Category
Completed
Website:
www.chosen.org.uk
In early December 2011 two men were arrested in connection with events described in this film.  As a result there are now ongoing criminal proceedings, so the film can no longer be shown on this website until those proceedings are concluded.  DVD sales within the UK will also be resumed once the cases are concluded.
The police investigation is continuing and if anyone has information or concerns relevant to the inquiry, please call Det Sgt Joe Banfield at the Child Abuse Investigation Unit on 01296 396569 or Joseph.Banfield@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk

Tom, Mark and Alastair all went to the very best school money could buy. At eight years of age they were sent as boarders to a prep school in the countryside outside London that prepared boys for Eton, Harrow, Oxford, Cambridge and life.
What their parents didn’t suspect, was that several of the teachers on the staff were career paedophiles, who would ruthlessly use the position of power and influence they held in the lives of the children in their charge to sexually exploit them in the most extreme and degrading way.
For thirty years the boys, and the men they became, stayed silent, nursingthe dark secret of the abuse they suffered.
In this film they break that silence with spellbinding articulacy, and breath-taking honesty. Looking back over the decades they analyse the consummateskill with which their abusers groomed them – separating them from their parents’ affections, and ensuring that they had no choice but to become complicit in the terrible acts they were led to believe they had to commit.

  • Click here to see the team being presented with the 2009 BAFTA for Single Documentary

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