A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a voice after they take 360 people hostage, and a pattern of abuse and corruption by the guards toward the prisoners becomes clear after lengthy negotiations.

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

Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the rin...
A character-driven, political-thriller documentary that explores the volatile events that defined Al...

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

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

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

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make m...

In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-takin...

After a disastrous failure to stop a robber gang, the police attempt to redeem themselves through a ...

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal sys...

Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would ...

After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms...

An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted h...

Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison a...

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, ...

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force the...

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accum...

A band of thugs belonging to an organized crime family assaults several casinos at the same time cre...

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holida...

A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battle...