America's Greatest Prison Breaks

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 15...

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...

A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an...

Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories...

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

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.

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

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she prov...

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...

The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themse...

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

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

A short 1983 documentary about an alternative to prison.

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel...