Behind Bars

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

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

After decades behind bars, three men set out to prove success can lie on the other side of tragedy. Follows the stories of Harrison, Noel, and Chris a...

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 me...

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 doc...

Documentary about four maffia-like friends based in Amsterdam.

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a c...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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