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

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

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

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

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

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

The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.

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

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

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

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

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

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait fr...

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

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fell...
A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and toug...

A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuad...

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained...

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point ...

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