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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...

A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly aft...

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...

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

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

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

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

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

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a ...