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Author
Series
60 Days In volume 10
Language
English
Description
After an emotional breakdown, one participant is not sure he can continue in the program.
Author
Series
Inmate to Roommate volume 6
Language
English
Description
Henry, Darquavion and Uncle Joe's conversation about calling the police, quickly turns explosive. Bill prepares to visit his girlfriend in California but not before Sharna gets into a war of words with him.
Author
Series
Inmate to Roommate volume 4
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly as Kyle and Sandra lay down the list of guidelines for released inmate Nick. We meet Tiffane, who's taking in Ari, a young woman finishing up her four-and-a-half-year sentence for identity theft and bank fraud.
Author
Series
Inmate to Roommate volume 5
Language
English
Description
Tiffane and her friend/naysayer, Quinn, pick up Arielle from prison and tensions boil on the ride home. After Darquavion's family friend visits him at Henry's house, an explosive conversation about values is sparked.
Author
Series
Inmate to Roommate volume 10
Language
English
Description
After the big blowout, Nick makes a decision about his living situation with Kyle and Sandra. Artie meets with Jovan's wife, Kelly, to figure out what's next for Jovan and his daughter.
Author
Series
Inmate to Roommate volume 2
Language
English
Description
After 18 years behind bars, Bill is finally released from prison and immediately hit with a long list of rules from devout Mark and Sharna.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The theater in Rome's Rebibbia Prison. A performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has just ended amidst much applause. The lights dim on the actors and they become prisoners once again as they are accompanied back to their cells. Six months earlier, The warden and a theater director speak to the inmates about a new project, the staging of Julius Caesar in the prison. The first step is casting, a process both vivid and energetic. The second step...
9) Coldwater
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An inspirational documentary, highlighting the journey of disabled veterans whose lives are changed through the unconditional love of service dogs that have been trained by female prison inmates. Join three veterans as they meet their service dog and work with the inmates in a Texas women’s prison. Witness these men’s transformation, as each dog expands the veteran’s world and heals their hearts.
11) Scum
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown. So 'Alan Clarke' and 'Roy Minton' got it re-made as a film. This is a tough and brutal film and should not be viewed lightly....
12) Breath
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
While waiting on death row, Jang Jin (Chen Chang) tries to commit suicide in the most bizarre way, using a sharpened toothbrush handle as his main tool. The details of his desperate attempt reach Yeon, a young female sculptor who doesn't know the inmate personally, but feels compelled to seek him out after discovering her husband's betrayal with another woman. A peculiar connection begins to grow between Jang Jin, who has become unable to speak, and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe, filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded...
Author
Series
Tatort Munich volume 3
Language
Deutsch
Description
A prison guard becomes personally involved with the inmates.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Thorn Birds comes this story of feverish passion and insane jealousy set in an isolated hospital camp at the end of World War II. Sister Honour Langtry (Wendy Hughes) is a warm, sensitive nurse caring for five emotionally wounded soldiers. But when a new patient arrives (Gary Sweet) who appears charming and untroubled, the delicate relationship between the inmates slowly begins to unravel. Jealousies smoulder, hatreds are fuelled,...
Author
Series
60 Days In volume 10
Language
English
Description
As the participants focus on leaving a lasting impact on the inmates, one participant finds themselves slipping into their old ways.
17) Titicut Follies
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
The film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. TITICUT FOLLIES documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers and psychiatrists.. "TITICUT FOLLIES is a brilliant work of art…" - Robert Coles, The New Republic. "TITICUT FOLLIES is a great work, a near-masterpiece not just of the documentary form, but of moviemaking...
Author
Series
60 Days In volume 9
Language
English
Description
Matt wrestles with the most devastating moment of his life, Alan gets a mysterious new cellmate, and the inmates throw an unforgettable birthday party.
20) Wrinkles
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Martin Sheen (The West Wing), Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises), and George Coe (Archer) lead a cast of eccentric characters who rebel against authority in this wonderfully animated and poignant comedy for adults.. Using hand-drawn animation, Wrinkles moves freely between the inmates’ daily routines and their more colorful, dementia-induced fantasies, leaving plenty of room for both tears and laughter as it pokes pointed fun at society’s...
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