The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo (1999)
• January 1st, 1999 • 0h 30min
Documentary
Overview
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It focuses primarily on the inmates experiences in the rodeo. For a lot of those prisoners, the rodeo seems to be the only thing they have to look forward to. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison
Released on: 2021-03-17
Documentary
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Pet...
The Farm: Angola, USA
Released on: 1998-01-17
Documentary
Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Intervie...
Serving Life
Released on: 2011-07-28
TV Movie, Documentary
SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fell...
A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm
Released on: 2009-06-16
Documentary
This documentary depicts the life inside the walls of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Se...
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Released on: 2008-04-01
Documentary
The gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who endured sol...
The Miracle of Hope
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary, Music
Known for years as one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons, Louisiana State Penitentiary ...
Letters to Angola
Released on: 2009-01-01
What have a young English girl and a Black Panther convicted of murder got to say to each other?
Who are the Angola 3?
Released on:
Three black man collectively have wrongly served 100 years in solitary confinement.
A Maestrina Chiquinha Gonzaga
Released on: 1999-05-07
Documentary, History, Music
Documentary about the life of one of the greatest composers in the history of Brazilian music. Piani...
History and Stories of Psychoanalysis
Released on: 2016-09-15
Documentary
The film consists mainly of interviews with readers of Freud in Brazil and several places in Europe,...
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
Released on: 1968-01-01
Documentary, Comedy
This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV s...
Thorium, the Far Side of Nuclear Power
Released on: 2016-09-27
Documentary
Ever heard of the Thorium molten salt reactor? That's hardly surprising, as for 70 years, it has bee...
Calabria
Released on: 2016-04-15
Documentary
Two morticians, one originally from Portugal and the other a Romani from Serbia, drive to southern I...
Placebo: Alt.Russia
Released on: 2016-11-18
Documentary
As the band Placebo approach their 20th Anniversary they were given a unique opportunity to play ten...
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
Released on: 2002-02-10
Documentary
Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who...
How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It
Released on: 2019-10-28
Documentary
"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the represent...
Pop féminisme : des militantes aux icônes pop
Released on: 2020-11-06
Documentary
An overview of 21st-century feminism through the lens of pop culture.
Four Photographic Sonatas Starring Michael Fassbender
Released on: 2015-09-16
Documentary
Four-part short starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender.
