Incarceration Movies

  • 2022
    Blue Room

    Blue Room

    Blue Room

    02022HD

    Incarcerated participants in a mental health experiment watch videos of sunset-soaked beaches, wildflowers and forests on loop, prompting them to...

    Blue Room
  • 1971
    Attica Interviews

    Attica Interviews

    Attica Interviews

    01971HD

    Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing...

    Attica Interviews
  • 2020
    To Be

    To Be

    To Be

    02020HD

    Juana, Mar, and Eduardo tell their stories of abuse.

    To Be
  • 1972
    Teach Our Children

    Teach Our Children

    Teach Our Children

    01972HD

    DocumentaThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take...

    Teach Our Children
  • 2023
    Dancing in A-Yard

    Dancing in A-Yard

    Dancing in A-Yard

    82023HD

    In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, a group of young men, willing...

    Dancing in A-Yard
  • 2004
    The Prisoner of the Iron Bars

    The Prisoner of the Iron Bars

    The Prisoner of the Iron Bars

    7.52004HD

    In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento...

    The Prisoner of the Iron Bars
  • 1970
    No Witness but the Mountains

    No Witness but the Mountains

    No Witness but the Mountains

    01970HD

    The film is set in a small, snow-covered mountain village in Kurdistan. We follow a young woman, Helin, who wants to discover her family history. She...

    No Witness but the Mountains
  • 1973
    Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison

    Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison

    Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison

    01973HD

    Two years after the riots and deaths at Attica, New York, a community day was organized at Greenhaven, a federal prison in Connecticut. The event was...

    Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison
  • 1970
    Back On Track

    Back On Track

    Back On Track

    01970HD

    Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris...

    Back On Track
  • 1970
    Back On Track - Out Of The System

    Back On Track - Out Of The System

    Back On Track - Out Of The System

    01970HD

    Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris...

    Back On Track - Out Of The System
  • 1970
    A Light In Cañon City

    A Light In Cañon City

    A Light In Cañon City

    01970HD

    A Light In Cañon City illuminates the lives of individuals who have traversed the challenging terrain of incarceration and emerged on the...

    A Light In Cañon City