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Attica

1980

Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.

6.6

Andersonville

1996

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.

0.0

The Conviction of Kitty Dodds

1993

An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.

6.4

The Consequence

1977

Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.

0.0

Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney

2016

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

0.0

The Prison Within

2020

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the debilitating constraints of trauma, and shattering preconceptions of "us and them."

0.0

Chodorkowskis neue Freiheit

2016

Released from prison, former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky expounds on his newfound freedom and complex relationship with Vladimir Putin.

0.0

Breakout

1970

A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally imprisoned.

0.0

Refuge(e)

2019

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and presented themselves at the US border asking for political asylum, only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison for months on end without having committed any crime. Thousands more like them can't tell their stories.

6.9

Solitary

2016

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the Pope. Situated in rural Virginia, 300 miles from any urban center, Red Onion State Prison is one of over 40 supermax prisons across the US built to hold prisoners in eight-by-ten-foot cells for 23 hours a day. Filmed over the course of one year, this eye-opening film braids stark prison imagery, stories from correction officers, and intimate reflections from the men who are locked up in isolation. The inmates share the paths that led them to prison and their daily struggles to maintain their sanity.

6.1

Into Pitch Black

2000

After the events of Pitch Black, a contractor is hired to locate Riddick, dead or alive. He reviews available information on him and the events of Pitch Black. Terrified, he hires a female cyberpunk merc to do the job for him.

0.0

Inside Pinochet's Prisons

1974

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

0.0

Cuerda de presos

1996

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to discover what life is like for those who live in them.

0.0

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

1998

Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.

6.5

The Glass House

1972

Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.

0.0

Hell

2019

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: Pademba Road. The adult prison in Freetown. In hell, Mr. Sillah is in charge, and there is no hope. Chennu got out after four years. Now he wants to go back.

6.7

The Big One

1997

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.

0.0

From Gaol to Rectory

1927

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

10.0

The Feminist on Cellblock Y

2018

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.

5.0

Rolling Man

1972

After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.

Genre	Documentary, TV Movie
Production Companies	BBC
Production Ccountries	United Kingdom

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Attica

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The Prison Within

Chodorkowskis neue Freiheit

Breakout

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Solitary

Into Pitch Black

Inside Pinochet's Prisons

Cuerda de presos

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

The Glass House

Hell

The Big One

From Gaol to Rectory

The Feminist on Cellblock Y

Rolling Man