Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing tra...

DocumentaThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targ...
Forty years after the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War, the dead re...

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fell...

Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates,...

A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps i...

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons...

The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.

Follow the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Cent...

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only...

Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see w...

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, Cali...

Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the rin...

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.
A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

French visual artist-director JR situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californi...

The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security priso...