Prison Movies

The warden of Halden, Norway's most humane prison, tours the U.S. prison system to urge a new approach emphasizing rehabilitation.

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

Behind the scenes at one of the most unique and controversial prisons in the UK, home to some of Britain's worst female criminals

Movie about prisoners in prison "Thorberg"

Ervin, an ex con man, is released from prison to find his old pal Micky waiting for him. The 75 year olds seem to hit it off as they drive around...

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

A Bosnian woman is released from prison after 13 years. She comes back home, where she finds her young son and his pregnant girlfriend. With luggage...

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

Skin flick about bank robbery.

Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.

A boy is locked in his room after an argument with his father, but things go wrong and he may never get out of this silent punishment again.

In Lepoglava, one of the most notorious penitentiaries in Europe, many regimes have trained their strictness by imposing the brutal methods of the...

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

A 17 year old boy is sent to an adult prison for robbing a Fotomat with a toy gun. He thinks he's going to a minimum security camp where they send...

Russian sociologist Maxim Shugaley and his translator colleague Samer Sueifan are still being held in a Libyan prison. For more than a year, they...

A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.

A jail setting juxtaposed against the wedding of Princess Diana on television thrusts both post modern irreverence and reification of icons onto the...

A man struggles with grief after coming out of prison.