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Defending Our Lives

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terr

1994

Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare doc

1966

Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

2008

Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

This hour-long documentary is a provocative look at a historical event of which few Americans are aware. In mid-January, 1893, armed troops from the U

1993

From Gaol to Rectory

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

1927

Cruel and Unusual

Five transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.

2006

Temps mort

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

2009

Belzer Behind Bars

Turn off the alarms and throw away the keys as these two comics set the inmates of Arizona State Prison rolling with laughter.

1983

The Big One

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their

1997

Life After Life

After decades behind bars, three men set out to prove success can lie on the other side of tragedy. Follows the stories of Harrison, Noel, and Chris a

2017

Mula

Francisco, Isabel, Fco. Javier and David are captured in different parts of the world when they worked as "mules" to overcome the crisis. They tell th

2021

Non-Stop

Province of Ciudad Real, Spain, December 29, 1990. During the annual march to the Herrera de la Mancha prison, held in support of the members of the t

2020

Wrong Fellows

Documentary about four maffia-like friends based in Amsterdam.

2010

Behind Bars

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

2001

Extreme Consequences: The Reality of Prison Life

A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.

2007

Privacy of Wounds

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their me

2018

The Condemned

With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum secur

2013

Prison, My Parents & Me

Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight int

2016

Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

1913

El Almafuerte

The youngsters housed in the "Almafuerte" Maximum Security Juvenile Institute have their first approach to audiovisual recording. A film and documenta