The Prison Within
Jan 17, 2020 | IMDB 0
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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."
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Hard Time: The Making of Prison
Riotsville, USA
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Standard Operating Procedure
The Big One
Britney vs. Spears
Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital
Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald
Orgy Every Other Day
The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta
Out of State
Preschool to Prison
La Lucha: Getting Schooled in America
Unthinkable: The Susan Smith Story
Wood Street
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Cruel and Unusual
IMDB 4 | Oct , 2006
Five transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2019
71 years in the making, this feature documentary experience reveals the extraordinary life journey of Hollywood's most unlikely hero, Danny Trejo.The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1997
Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features interviews with prisoners, guards, officials, lawyers and victims' family members.There's Something in the Water
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2019
Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.Hard Time: The Making of Prison
IMDB 8 | Feb , 2013
Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget horror film Prison (1987)Riotsville, USA
IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 2022
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.Tgirls Make Music
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
A documentary about trans woman rapper and producer htmljones (Ishaani Ponniah), framed through the visual language of early-2000s television, 2010s internet aesthetics, and contemporary British culture.Standard Operating Procedure
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2008
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.The Big One
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 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.Britney vs. Spears
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2021
Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears' fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence.Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital
IMDB 10 | May , 2014
This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story of Charity Hospital, from its roots to its controversial closing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. From the firsthand accounts of healthcare providers and hospital employees who withstood the storm inside the hospital, to interviews with key players involved in the closing of Charity and the opening of New Orleans’ newest hospital, “Big Charity” shares the untold, true story around its closure and sheds new light on the sacrifices made for the sake of progress.Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2013
Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.Orgy Every Other Day
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2024
Set in New York City’s queer underground sex party scene, Orgy Every Other Day explores the importance of creating space for all the letters of the queer alphabet to collectively experience the liberating potential of expressing and performing sexual desires while always respectfully asking for consent.The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2001
Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana, in South America: The Devil's Islands. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle, lay the lost remains of what had been for a hundred years the most storied convict prison in history. There, while most of the prisoners faded into oblivion, a few became legends. Some because they were innocent, as in the scandalous Dreyfus Affair, some because they somehow escaped the islands of nightmare, as did the "butterfly", Henry Charrière, immortalized by Steve McQueen in Papillon. Now 50 years after the prison doors slammed shut for the last time, we explore what's left of the Devil's Islands' unbelievably dark and oppressive realm.Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1913
Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.Out of State
IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 2017
Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and across the ocean, from their island home.Preschool to Prison
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2023
Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance policies are used to justify suspension and arrests that set up a pathway to send children of color and children with special needs from school to prison. Children are being suspended, restrained, dragged, physically manhandled, and subsequently arrested for minor offenses such as throwing candy on a school bus. These personal accounts from people affected by the school-to-prison pipeline give riveting tales about the generational impact on society.La Lucha: Getting Schooled in America
IMDB 0 | May , 2026
La Lucha follows five students navigating trauma, poverty, and broken systems as they fight to graduate. With expert voices and national stats, the film challenges us to rethink education from the ground upUnthinkable: The Susan Smith Story
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2024
Hear from the prosecutors who handled Susan Smith's case and why authorities doubted her story from the beginning. The boys' father, David Smith, talks about why he believes 30 years in prison isn't long enough for Susan and what he's prepared to tell a SC Board of Pardons and Paroles to keep her behind bars.Wood Street
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
Two unhoused men turned community leaders— John and LaMonté —organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and a failing social system.