Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant

Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant

6.5

Jul 06 2023

1h 11m

Documentary

Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, who was the only supplier to be sent to prison for releasing a "video nasty". Hamilton-Grant navigated loopholes in the law in the 70s in order to produce and screen smut in an extremely censorship restricted Britain. When the home video boom hit in the 80s he was one of the first to capitalize on the initially far less regulated format... but he would pay the price. Then things get really dark and strange.

David Hamilton-Grant

David Hamilton-Grant

Self (archive footage)

Jack Davenport

Jack Davenport

Narrator (voice)

Françoise Pascal

Françoise Pascal

Self

Cheryl Gilham

Cheryl Gilham

Self