Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.
French visual artist-director JR (co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES with t...
A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps i...
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates,...
Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing tra...
The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons...
SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fell...
A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, Cali...
'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and toug...
In America, the prison system has become a place of retribution, not restoration. Inmates are often ...
Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...
The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security priso...
Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see w...
Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only...
Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.
The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.
This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained...
A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuad...
Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.
Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the rin...