Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

Nemesis (2020)

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.

• Documentary

Coffee for All (2017)

Just as "the fluttering of the wings of a butterfly can be felt on the other side of the world" (according to the Chinese proverb) a coffee offered in Naples can be felt in Buenos Aires and replicated in New York. In the bars of threedifferent cities ofthe world, the camera will record the "first flutter" of a coffee cup offered to a customer.

• Documentary

Jacinta (2021)

An intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, Jacinta follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break free from an inherited cycle of addiction, incarceration, and crime.

• Documentary
• Crime

The Feminist on Cellblock Y (2018)

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

• Documentary

Schindler (1983)

The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.

• Documentary
• History
• TV Movie

Sister Hearts (2018)

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or employment. She began selling secondhand goods out of a suitcase on a street corner in New Orleans. In just three years, she grew her business to a brick-and-mortar thrift store—one that also provides housing and employment for other formerly-incarcerated women. She calls those women—and her store—Sister Hearts.

• Documentary

Chodorkowskis neue Freiheit (2016)

Released from prison, former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky expounds on his newfound freedom and complex relationship with Vladimir Putin.

• Documentary

Crulic: The Path to Beyond (2011)

An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to start a hunger strike from the day he was arrested, demanding a meeting with somebody from the Romanian Consulate.

• Animation
• Documentary

Charles Manson, The Church of Satan, The Universal Order & The Process Church of Final Judgment (2012)

Out of the spiritual chaos of the 1960s, more strange cults and unorthodox messiahs have emerged than ever. Charles Manson is seen as the annoying result of libertarianism of the 1960s - the Cain who murdered the Abel from The Love Generation. Or in the words of one commentator; "the Elvis of alienation."

• Documentary

Champagne (1996)

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 provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future.

• Animation
• Documentary
• Family

Starbucks Unfiltered (2018)

How the American coffee chain, now global, has conquered the urban middle class. This investigation on three continents reveals the carefully hidden face of the brand.

• Documentary

Free Chol Soo Lee (2022)

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.

• Documentary
• Crime

Belzer Behind Bars (1983)

Turn off the alarms and throw away the keys as these two comics set the inmates of Arizona State Prison rolling with laughter.

• Comedy
• Documentary

Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney (2016)

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

• Documentary

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars (2008)

For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.

• Documentary
• TV Movie

Give Up Tomorrow (2011)

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.

• Documentary
• Crime

Infiltré à Auschwitz (2021)

• Documentary
• War
• History
• TV Movie

The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

• Documentary

From Gaol to Rectory (1927)

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

• Documentary

Cell 364 (2020)

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.

• Documentary