San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County. San Quentin opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection, though the prison has not performed an execution since 2006.
Part of a trilogy about the reality of living in a French prison.
A group of men share a small space in a prison metal workshop in Botosani, Romania. When they’re not...
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Bo...
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants t...
Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the let...
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial a...
Is it possible to escape from fate if you live quietly and unnoticed, without causing harm to anyone...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of yo...
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Prote...
After being involved in a hit and run incident, a wealthy spoiled brat was sent to prison and must l...
Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exis...
A common man imprisoned in a corrupt system questions whether jails truly rehabilitate or push indiv...
Eric Clapton plays old hits and new ones in this Grammy Award winning special.
This film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By focusing on classified secret...
A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extens...
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...