Behind Bars

We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.

The film is about a woman’s prison and shows how creativity transforms people and gives them strength.

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight...

A film narrated by a prison interview with long-jailed black radical Ojore Lutalo. Ojore touches on many issues, from what prisons are, to why he is...

Young Kids Hard Time explores the story of young children sentenced to adult prison for decades, through the eyes of 12-year old Paul Gingerich and...

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their...

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to...

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their...

Documentary about four maffia-like friends based in Amsterdam.

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

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

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

The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various...

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

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare...

A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.