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.

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

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

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

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...

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only...
A character-driven, political-thriller documentary that explores the volatile events that defined Al...

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

A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station...

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery char...

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

Hickson lived off the books, running from one place to another to make a living. His only great achi...

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

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

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

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

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

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then...

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

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid...