When Women Kill

Ashley Smith was a troubled 19-year-old when she choked herself to death at Ontario's Grand Valley Institution for Women. Her death made national...

For over thirty years, three women have languished in Missouri State prison under unjust sentences for killing their abusive husbands. Denied the...

The film recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran...

The soulless atmosphere of a women's penitentiary destroys the prisoners' personality, kills all femininity in them. The film looks at the...

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

Mo'nique visited a women's prison and performed her stand-up comedy for the inmates. I Coulda Been Your Cellmate is as much a documentary as it is a...

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of...

CeCe McDonald survived a brutal attack, only to be incarcerated for defending her life. After an international movement to free her, CeCe emerged as...

Holloway — once the largest women's prison in Europe, now abandoned. Six ex-inmates revisit, recounting experiences, giving voice to...

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

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is...