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.
Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the s...
Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a...
The actor Gøril Mauseth goes on a 11.000 kilometer travel with the Trans-Siberian to play Anna Karen...
In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary c...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Documentary on Sakine Cansız (Sara), the Kurdish revolutionary and PKK co-founder killed in Paris in...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmoha...
Street pimps, all of them African-American, discuss their lives and work: getting started, being fla...
A year in the life of troubled Australian graffiti artist Justin Hughes.
A documentary on reformed ex-con Rick Maylender and his attempts to help troubled youths by taking t...
The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...
The documentary follows the life of Farroukh, a young Tajik immigrant who lives in Moscow outskirts ...
Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 1...
This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained...
A look at the prison breakout of Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional facility, as...
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A ...
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S...
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to ...
In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian...