Behind Bars

In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind th...

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Ko...

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terr...

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their me...

The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strength.

We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.

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 doc...

This documentary, which features Sergei Parajanov’s heartbreaking letters from prison, explores creativity among inmates and the art born in condition...

Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight int...

For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind of one of the most prolific killers in U.S. histo...

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

Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget horror film Prison (1987)