Inmate Movies

A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive. A filmmaker goes deep inside Alabama's...

An investigation into how inmates, from their cells on Death Row, help pen pals outside in their daily struggles.

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island...

A young prison inmate gets released together with an old gangster. They go to town together in order to visit their families and friends, but nobody...

The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in which fifteen...

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of...

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and...

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.

Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what's left of the past and what lies in store for...

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

Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.

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

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

Single mother Kathi receives day release from prison and finds her three-year-old son, who is living with her unstable mother, in bad circumstances....

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.