Prisoners in Freedom City

Civil rights activist Hu Jia was held under house arrest from 2004 to 2008 in the upscale eastern suburbs of Beijing. One day Hu picked up a video camera and began to document things outside the window: his watchers, she

Prisoners of the Ground

Nobody can escape the dance of life. Prisoners of the Ground is literally and symbolically about surviving in the dark: a portrait of an introvert, melancholic society; a Finnish tango in the shape of a movie.

Bolshevik Prisoners

A video essay

V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners

Follows Juan Ramos, an accountant accused of corruption and murder, as he navigates the brutal politics and survival struggles within the dangerous jail, battling powerful inmates to prove his innocence.

Prisoners (Skin Ritz)

’25 years ago I was asked by Chiatt Day Advertising in Los Angeles to cover the making of ‘1984’ for Apple Computers. This commercial was to be directed by Ridley Scott to introduce the Macintosh to the world. ... The me

Prisoners of Beaumont

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter".

Prisoners of The Ghetto

Visible from the sky scrapers of San Fransisco's financial district, Bayview is a deadly ghetto. Most of the young people here won't live to see their 25th birthday. At the age of 12, Devin Melvin was already armed and

Prisoners of Conscience

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Ghandi from June 1975 through March 1977. During this time over 100,000 people were arrested

Soylu Tutsak

Take No Prisoners

Take No Prisoners offers unprecedented access to America’s top hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, as he battles to free LA public defender Eyvin Hernandez from a notorious Venezuelan prison called “The House of Dreams.”

Prisoners

The film "Prisoners" is a documentary evidence of the unbroken spirit of the generation of war children. This is the bitter truth about the fate of young prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, who carried in their memory

Prisoners of Fate

After the hardships of fleeing their home countries, refugees from Afghanistan and Iran face the challenge of having to adapt to a new environment: Switzerland.

Slaughter of Ghosts. How Russian Prisoners Fight in Ukraine

The documentary film explores a top-secret Russian government experiment involving the recruitment and deployment of prisoners to the war in Ukraine. This investigation vividly exposes the brutal cruelty of the Russian m

Blood Prisoners

In the 1990s, a car full of prisoners collides head-on with a large tractor rushing on the Panshan Highway. Injured prisoners struggle to get out of the overturned car. Prison police Yue Bing (Zhu Shunliang) and Liu Zhic

Female Convict 101: Suck

A troubled ex-prostitute turned barkeep is enchanted by the love of a younger man named Kenichi. After trusting a violent junkie to help with her young lover’s singing career, she is sent to prison for murder. Now known

Prisoners of Kanun

The centuries-old custom of blood feuds has started blighting lives since the collapse of communism in Albania, where many families are living locked down in their houses in fear of blood vengeance. The ancestral code of

Acting Up for Prisoners

An empowering chronicle of ACT UP's campaign for adequate health care for HIV-positive women at Frontera prison.

Prisoners of War

Mikhaylo Nigmatullin, a scout sniper with the 43rd Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion "Patriot," was captured by militants in January 2015 in Horlivka during a combat mission. The volunteer spent 171 days in captivity

Freedom for Sale - Buying Prisoners' Freedom in Divided Germany

One of the most controversial dealings between the FRG and DDR and a political secret until the collapse of Communist Germany: the sale of over 33,000 political prisoners for diamonds, crude oil, exotic fruits and foreig

Beyond the Berlin Wall: Reports from Stasi Prisoners

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three former political prisoners recall their moments of violation and humiliation in the clutches of state security in East Berlin and their experiences in the then H