Survivors Library

Books

Conspiracy of Faith – Fighting for Justice After Child Abuse

by Graham Wilmer

Please, Daddy, No: A Boy Betrayed

by Stuart Howarth

Wounded Boys, Heroic Men: Man’s Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse

by Daniel Jay Sonkin

Break the Silence Survivors Guide

by We Are Survivors March 2013

Forced Marriage

by Family and Divorce Team (Pannone) 2014

Proud to be Me

by Graham Wilmer MBE and the Lantern Project

Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma

Edited by James Cassese

Narrative Approaches to Working with Adult Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

by Kim Etherington

Films & Documentaries

In a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 a popular priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled 12 year old black student is questioned by the school’s principal. Oscar award winning film starring Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Mystic River

Oscar winning film starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon. With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one loses a daughter.

Mysterious Skin

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Stuart A Life Backwards

David Atwood’s award winning film, based on the book by Alexander Masters, of the relationship between a writer and man, dealing with the legacy of childhood sexual abuse.

Sleepers

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention centre where they are physically and sexually abused by the officers in charge; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.

James & Keith Discuss Storyline: Hollyoaks

(©) Lime Pictures 2014

The Prince Of Tides

Tom Wingo, leaves his wife and sets off for New York in an effort to uncover his tortured childhood, to help his psychologically-troubled sister.

#Break The Silence

by Ministry of Justice starring James Sutton (Hollyoaks) and Duncan Craig (We Are Survivors). 13.02.14

Oprah: 200 Adult Men Who Were Molested Come Forward

Two hundred men courageously stand together to say they were all molested. Watch this landmark episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show in its entirety.

Scum

This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders, starring Ray Winstonne.

Chosen

Tom, Mark and Alastair 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. Little did their parents’ suspect.

Boyhood Shadows

Boyhood Shadows explores the emotional carnage of childhood sexual abuse. About pain. Betrayal. Addiction. Devastation. But it also shines a light on the strength of the human spirit. Dignity. Honesty. And even, humour.

Boys and Men Healing

Boys and Men Healing is a documentary about the impact of male sexual abuse on both the individual and society, and the importance and power of healing and speaking out for male survivors for the well-being of individuals, families and communities.

Shatterboy

A 27 minute documentary of five men discussing the impact of sexual abuse on men. Intended as an introduction into this difficult topic that can be used in therapy sessions, group discussions and training seminars.

Care

BAFTA nominated Crime/Drama, written by Kieran Prendiville and starring Steven Mackintosh, about child abuse in a Welsh children’s home.

My Brother Tom

Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack: her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father.