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,...
A character-driven, political-thriller documentary that explores the volatile events that defined Al...

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

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

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...

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

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...

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...

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.

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...

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

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...

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