Prison Movies

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted...

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of...

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...

A young man who is thrown into jail simply because he displeases a police inspector. But even when he's eventually released, the police continue to...

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he...

Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a...

A young man’s life is suddenly and inexplicably derailed, as he finds himself at the mercy of automated ‘justice’.

"El Rati Horror Show" is a documentary that portrays the dramatic story of Fernando Ariel Carrera, the case of an ordinary man wrongly sentenced to...

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

This gritty documentary takes you inside the legendary Oso Blanco, the most feared prison of Puerto Rico and one of the most notorious in the...

A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.

Three convicted criminals escape from prison carrying only a güiro, a tambor and an accordion. During their journey, they meet with a bunch of...

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a...

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.

Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a...

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the...