Behind Bars

With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum...

Turn off the alarms and throw away the keys as these two comics set the inmates of Arizona State Prison rolling with laughter.

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that...

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...

After decades behind bars, three men set out to prove success can lie on the other side of tragedy. Follows the stories of Harrison, Noel, and Chris...

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...

Francisco, Isabel, Fco. Javier and David are captured in different parts of the world when they worked as "mules" to overcome the crisis. They tell...

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

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Capturing the early recording process of the compilation album “Prison Songs: Nyanyian yang Dibungkam”, this film is a collaborative work...

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

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined...

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to...

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

Documentary about four maffia-like friends based in Amsterdam.

The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various...

Five transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.

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

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