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...
In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-takin...
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...
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates,...
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...
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the...
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...
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then...
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal sys...
HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 3...
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and ...
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainm...
An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage d...
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for hi...
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "De...
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would ...