Prison Movies

Dramatic Escape follows inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Upstate New York, as they attempt to mount a behind bars production of A FEW...

A prisoner is locked away in a lonely prison cell as part of a state-of-the-art program for prisoners all over the nation, operated by the notorious...

In 2016 the largest and most modern prison in the Netherlands, Judicial Complex Zaanstad, opens its doors. New architecture and a new professional...

Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and...

The film tells the story of a convict who fights against the injustice of prison management. Arap Kadir is new to prison. He earns prison leader...

A surreal look at the day-to-day life of American soldiers stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba through the eyes of a traveling circus troupe cleared to...

Lena and Karin have known each other for six years and have gotten really close to each other. When freedom is coming up for one of them, it's not as...

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

A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is...

A psychologist for inmates has knowledge of a secret, experimental brain implant, designed to change convicts' behavior so that they will not...

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

Hear from the prosecutors who handled Susan Smith's case and why authorities doubted her story from the beginning. The boys' father, David Smith,...

Insight Prison Project, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (John R. May Award) - for its dedication to breaking...

A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a...

Sexploitatation drama very loosely based on the former penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

A young girl discovers the truth regarding the secrets of her past. Just as she discovers the truth, events take place that change her life forever.

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German...

Should a punishment fit the crime?