Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually harassed him, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Tenderly revealing two lives lived in limbo, this film bears witness to the first and final visit of his mother, Lubyov.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy d...
Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the s...
The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic ...
A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vla...
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
Street pimps, all of them African-American, discuss their lives and work: getting started, being fla...
A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' famil...
An inside look at the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where one of the U.S.’s only in-pri...
Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is bui...
From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many vic...
Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 1...
The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...
Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...
For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind...
Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So i...