Ghosts of Attica

Criminal Injustice: Death and Politics at Attica

Forty years after the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War, the dead remain buried along with the truth. Until now. Based

2012

Teach Our Children

DocumentaThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take d

1972

Attica

Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.

2021

The Prison Within

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the debil

2020

À double tour

1993

From Prison: Young Devil Worshipers

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

1989

The Quilters

Follow the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small t

2024

La fuga

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themse

2021

The Feminist on Cellblock Y

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

2018

Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot

Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards the

2015

My Marlboro City

Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what's left of the past and what lies in store for

2011

Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars

A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive. A filmmaker goes deep inside Alabama's in

2004

God and Devil on Top of the Wall

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these e

2006

Another Chance

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

1983

2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary

The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.

2018

London Symphony

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

1955

Enquête sur les camps perdus du IIIème Reich

2021

Serving Life

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Aca

2011

Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

2013

Temps mort

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

2009