America's Greatest Prison Breaks

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

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

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin tow...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum secur...

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