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

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

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

DocumentaThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targ...

The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.

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

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

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...

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, Cali...
A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

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

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

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

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

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

In America, the prison system has become a place of retribution, not restoration. Inmates are often ...

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

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