Prison Movies

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father,...

A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a...

An armored car guard's elaborate plan for revenge is threatened by his relationship with an old friend -- a brilliant and unpredictable television...

Narrated by Uncle Jack Charles and seen through the eyes of Indigenous prisoners at Victoria’s Fulham Correctional Centre, this documentary...

3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in...

Jake Groden is the black sheep of his family. Ankle deep in fish guts, he serves out his parole in Alaska. Then, after a decade of self-imposed...

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they...

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

A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.

A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a...

In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, a group of young men, willing...

Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital punishment around the world through documentary...

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

Halil is a teenage boy, son of a poor porter, and sees him dying when serving a man without compassion. Halil keeps on with father's work, to pay for...

A powerful, emotional and sometimes humorous look at the daily life of a prison inmate and a corrections officer.

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out...

Young Kids Hard Time explores the story of young children sentenced to adult prison for decades, through the eyes of 12-year old Paul Gingerich and...

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...