The Ridge

A group of young men and women free-fall into the horrifying world of the CIA’s top secret MKUltra mind-control program. Conducted in two asylums for the criminally insane under the guise of curing psychopaths, it actually becomes a finishing school for them.

With unprecedented access to survivors, this investigative documentary is the definitive telling of what went on at Oak Ridge - the “Criminal Insane Building” - and on the women’s ward at St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital, into the 1990s. Psychiatrist Dr. Elliot Barker designed and led the program at Oak Ridge. He, the CIA, the Canadian government and the still-active Donner Foundation claimed to be seeking a cure for psychopathy.

The Ridge is a ‘stranger than fiction’ documentary exposing one of the most horrifying experiments ever to take place within the confines of a hospital. It is a miscarriage of justice story about the abuse of power in a system stacked against the most vulnerable.