Tag: Prison
Love Crimes of Kabul
LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL is an intimate portrait of three young Afghani women accused of committing "moral crimes" such as premarital sex and running...
The Condemned: Russia’s Toughest Prison
In 2001, soon after Mark Franchetti arrived in Russia as the Sunday Times correspondent, he went on a remarkable assignment to Penal Colony 56....
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in...
Americas Hardest Prisons: Boiling Point
Give it, get it, It's that simple. One of the first things they do is uncuff the inmate. Given the fact that they deal...
The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman
The Iceman is an appropriate title for this pair of HBO specials, because the words of former Mafia enforcer Richard Kuklinski will chill you...
The Great Escape
The Great Escape," is a captivating documentary that tells the story of the famous World War II escape attempt by Allied prisoners of war....
The Mark of Caïn
Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners — The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some...
Snowden’s Journalist of Choice
In June of 2013, Glenn Greenwald was the first to report on the classified national security agency documents leaked by the former NSA contractor...
Blanketmen
Documentary focusing on the morale of Irish Republican prisoners during the tumultuous period of the 1976-81 H-Block prison protest which culminated in the deaths...
