Prison Movies

Told through the charismatic voice of inmate Kenneth Reams, Free Men is a film about human resilience. In solitary confinement for the last 25 years,...

The story of a policeman whose life was ruined by an accident

A group of prisoners were doing a variety of activities on the courtyard. Big Fool (William Ho) and Crazy Bill (Tommy Wong) were playing basketball wh...

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number was...

An intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, Jacinta follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break f...

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. Geor...

A young man, convicted murderer, has a chance of redemption when he enters the best Italian university of economics, going back and forth from prison...

In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, a group of young men, willing to tak...

Based on the memoir Special Housing Unit, The Last Ledger follows Raj Chowdhury, a brilliant fin-tech entrepreneur whose meteoric rise through technol...

A veritable city within a city, La Santé—as it is known—is an unworthy old lady: unworthy of housing human beings. Located in the heart of Paris, it n...

Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital punishment around the world through documentary fo...

A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the words of “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” by raúlrsalinas, written in 1969 in Leavenworth Federal...

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

A teenage inmate's boxing skills land him in the middle of a turf war within prison walls.

Confined to a cold cell for 41 nights, a doctor's dreams of failures collide with his memories of success.

A Father on deathrow escapes prison to see his Daughter and Grandson one last time.

This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese, Austral...

A former kingpin of the streets, Miles “Cain” Skinner is doing life in prison. He is feared and respected among the inmates. When Cain learns that his...

An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficu...