Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution their joy in Christ stuns the entire prison camp.
For decades, the United States has been fixated on incarceration, building prisons and locking up more and more people. But at what cost, and has it really made a difference? FRONTLINE goes to the epicenter of the raging debate about incarceration in America, focusing on the controversial practice of solitary confinement and on new efforts to reduce the prison population, as officials are rethinking what to do with criminals.
In the heart of their hood, Lola and Moha are staggering home. On their way, they come across a car, the lights are on… as if someone had forgotten to close a door. The opportunity seems too good, Lola convinces her lover to do it. Moha finds the keys in the glove compartment. From that moment on, it’s the great disinhibition of ambitions; how far will they go with this “borrowed” car full of gas? Why not trade their suburb for the sea?
Scottish man Jimmy Anderson, released from jail in the middle east over unpaid debt disputes, reunites with his wife Lillian after over a year's struggle for freedom. His homecoming does not relieve him to get back to normal life until he makes an unexpected decision to embark on another journey.
A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he delivered food for his family's pizzeria. Depressed and lonely, Khalil found solace in smoking weed and looking at extremist material online. Then two young women started messaging him, and he fell in love. But one of them suggested he start doing increasingly violent things. Nothing was as it seemed. And Khalil's life would never be the same. A documentary by Garret Harkawik for the Gravel Institute.
A former thief driving through a small town is coerced into stealing a valuable statue but finds himself in hot water after he's accused of murder.
The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themselves, in Boal's words, this group of men reflects on their masculinity as a representation to hide their true strength: their vulnerability.
A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined with animated sequences of an inmate's incarceration story.
Short wartime comedy in which mister Dingemans and madam Babbel are trying to do some clandestine business in Brussels.
A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.
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 the future.
Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
Low budget softcore farce where two men cross-dress to go into a women's prison.
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
A father killed his son. In a state of alcoholic delirium, a young man murdered his friend. A 21 year-old boy shot a policeman. Faced with their death sentence, they tell about what happens with them at the moment when they are between death and ... death.
Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives.
A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
The movie revolves around the family of Aby. His wife Sara, and their daughter Riya . Aby is a bank employee. Sara was brought up in an orphanage and is lucky to have an understanding husband, Aby. When Aby gets a transfer to Kolkata, the family shifts to Kolkata where they have to encounter certain unexpected tragedies. How they face and overcome these adversaries forms the crux of the story.