Prison Movies

Should a punishment fit the crime?

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

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...

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

In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his...

Province of Ciudad Real, Spain, December 29, 1990. During the annual march to the Herrera de la Mancha prison, held in support of the members of the...

Career criminal Eddy gets sent to prison for raping a country girl and while in jail indulges in homosexual sex with his cellmate.

Filmmaker David Achkar searches for his father, Marof Achkar, who was sent to the notorious Camp Boiro prison in 1969 for treason.

When Canada's Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, the country's rehabilitative...

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

Gwang-pil (Lee Ryong), Dal-su (Choi Bong) and Sang-mun (Choi Myeong-su) are gangster boys who pick pockets. Ae-ran (Do Geum-bong), who works at a...

Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare...

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances...

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

Two men are released from prison and while keeping up appearances, they steal everything they can from the guards hugging them farewell.

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.