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.
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...
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...
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the...
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison a...
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force the...
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battle...
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber esc...
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid...
When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from t...
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would ...
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...
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...