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.
In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-takin...
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,...
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...
Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only...
The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make m...
Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.
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...
Hostage negotiator Alan Bender is called to rescue the president from a kidnapping, only to find him...
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...
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid...
An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted h...
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal sys...