Chicken Ranch (film)

Chicken Ranch
Directed bySandi Sissel
Nick Broomfield
Produced byNick Broomfield
CinematographySandi Sissel
Edited byJulian Ware
Release date
  • September 1982 (1982-09)
Running time
74 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Chicken Ranch is a 1982 British documentary film directed by Nick Broomfield and Sandi Sissel. Its subject is the Chicken Ranch, a legalized brothel in Pahrump, Nevada. It was produced by Broomfield and photographed by Sissel.

The documentary, which remains purely observational for the most part, depicts the prostitutes as likeable characters often looking for a way out of the remote location where the brothel is situated. The film shows the girls lining up for potential clients, joking about their job, and interacting with one another within the brothel.