Prison Movies

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that quest...

A film narrated by a prison interview with long-jailed black radical Ojore Lutalo. Ojore touches on many issues, from what prisons are, to why he is i...

Twenty years after he helped put Jon Buice in a Texas prison, Ray Hill is fighting to free him. Filmed over eight years, The Guy With the Knife traces...

A drug-addict mother, locked in a mental institution, confesses she killed of her own son.

Darrell is a well trained prison bitch looking forward to a night alone in his cell getting jacked on the drugs he's had smuggled in, when a riot erup...

Welcome to Florence, Arizona: a cowboy town with a prison problem. Just 8,500 residents call the tiny community home—but over 17,000 inmates live ther...

In this speculative documentary, present-day Nation borders have collapsed into vast privatized housing complexes. Epitomizing advanced capitalism’s f...

The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various prisons in Bel...

As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United States' only existing native martial culture, as i...

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Ghandi from June 1975 t...

Inmates, all serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison, openly discuss their crimes, describe the harsh realities of prison life, and...

“Fresh Start: A Marcus Harvin Story” presents an intimate portrayal of Marcus Harvin’s journey as he transcends his past to make a profound impact on...

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new co...

Experimental documentary about the Venezuelan prison Retén de Catia.

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

Tanjung Gusta Prison is the largest prison in North Sumatra. The North Sumatran region has the highest crime rate in Indonesia. In 2013, Tanjung Gusta...