Jail Filmes

Hear from the prosecutors who handled Susan Smith's case and why authorities doubted her story from the beginning. The boys' father, David Smith,...

North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000...

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged....

For decades, the United States has been fixated on incarceration, building prisons and locking up more and more people. But at what cost, and has it...

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...

One of the social guidance / scare films made by prolific filmmaker Sid Davis, “Book Him!” was produced in the 1960s. It shows various...

A young woman tries to make a documentary about women who have relatives in prison, but she finds difficulties trying to get the testimonials.

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

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number...

Omar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more than 30 years — never out longer than six...

A father killed his son. In a state of alcoholic delirium, a young man murdered his friend. A 21 year-old boy shot a policeman. Faced with their...

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

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

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...

Scottish man Jimmy Anderson, released from jail in the middle east over unpaid debt disputes, reunites with his wife Lillian after over a year's...

A documentary chronicling 17 years of Mark David Allen's alcohol abuse.

Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a group of inmates from the "Santiago 1" prison...

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

Short wartime comedy in which mister Dingemans and madam Babbel are trying to do some clandestine business in Brussels.