The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

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1999 / 30min.

Rating7

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It focuses primarily on the inmates experiences in the rodeo. For a lot of those prisoners, the rodeo seems to be the only thing they have to look forward to. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Directors

Jonathan Stack

Actors

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