10 Days in a Madhouse is a 2015 American biographical film about undercover journalist Nellie Bly who was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world.
10 days in a Madhouse is a 2015 American biographical film about undercover journalist Nellie Bly, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World who had herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island to write an expose on abuses in the institution. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864  January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an expose in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. 
