Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events...

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from...

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

A runner, serving a life sentence at Folsom Prison, works at becoming the world's fastest miler and wins a chance to compete for a spot on the...

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty...

Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy...

The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security...

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

Hostage-taking in a maximum security prison. Three felons bring three friends with homemade bombs under their control. A police officer who happens...

In the 1940s, a prison warden attempts to discipline a defiant inmate within a brutal correctional system. As tensions rise, their relationship...

Ruth is committed to her work, her family, and her faith, but when an ex-lover is released from prison and comes back into her life, her convictions...

As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of...

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order...

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of...

Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him...

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true...

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge....