Ghosts of Attica

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

French visual artist-director JR (co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES with the legendary Agnès Varda) situates his...

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could...

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

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

The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in which fifteen...

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

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island...

In America, the prison system has become a place of retribution, not restoration. Inmates are often treated as sub-human, and often find themselves...

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

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...

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