Prison Movies

A portrait of American recidivism produced over a span of two years, Revolving Doors follows Jason, who, despite attempts to retain meaningful employm...

Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the fil...

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

Emma is 50 years old and twenty who acts corrections officer. Her life revolves around the jail where he works and her home. Without leaving his lonel...

We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.

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

Documentary about four maffia-like friends based in Amsterdam.

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison...

Behind the scenes at one of the most unique and controversial prisons in the UK, home to some of Britain's worst female criminals

The documentary was shot in the prison for juvenile delinquents in Hungary. It does not aim at judging whether the perpetrators were convicted rightly...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is lived...

The controversial documentary about prison, Injustice. Injustice looks at the role the prison system plays in England and Wales. Injustice is a film...

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

A 17 year old boy is sent to an adult prison for robbing a Fotomat with a toy gun. He thinks he's going to a minimum security camp where they send non...

Metamorphosis is a documentary-style film giving the true account Bill Troester and the transformation he experienced by Jesus out of a life of violen...

A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the g...

The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967),who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled on the...

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

The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strength.