Prison Movies

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by...

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

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.

The story of a cowboy who fights a bandit gang that is after him.

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...

The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for...

After 14 years in prison, the time has come for Gogita to return to his normal life. His wishes seem modest enough: a home of his own and then...

200 young people under 25 have died in custody since 1992 in England and Wales. This is the story of three of them; young men who died behind bars -...

A documentary from within the Swedish Migration Board's locked repository where people are in custody awaiting forced deportation. Prisoner and guard...

The story of South Boy. Caught up in a life of crime, he finds himself doing time in Federal Prison.

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

Young Kids Hard Time explores the story of young children sentenced to adult prison for decades, through the eyes of 12-year old Paul Gingerich and...

A jail setting juxtaposed against the wedding of Princess Diana on television thrusts both post modern irreverence and reification of icons onto the...

Russian sociologist Maxim Shugaley and his translator colleague Samer Sueifan are still being held in a Libyan prison. For more than a year, they...

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...