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.

Prisoner of Golconda

Arrested and put into a dark cell of the fort of Golconda as a very dangerous prisoner. His house was burnt his mother was killed.

Nos chers prisonniers

Le Naufragé et le Prisonnier

Le Naufragé et le Prisonnier continue's my frenetic quest for travel and filming. This episode of the Filmed Notebooks is the continuation of the previous one (Printemps météore) with the filming of the Adventures of Edd

Kyaukme Prisoner

Kyaukme A Kyin Thar (ကျောက်မဲအကျဉ်းသား) is a 1969 Burmese black-and-white action drama film, directed by San Shwe Maung starring Win Oo, Khin Than Nu, Aung Lwin, Phoe Par Gyi and San San Win

The last prisoner

Dinos, the sole survivor of a group of saboteurs who were exterminated by the Germans for treason, finds refuge in the house of a crippled girl. She hides him in the basement and, falling in love with him, keeps him pris

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

Prisoner Number Seven

A young woman, a prisoner who was set up to steal by her lover, is in jail. She would like to see her sweetheart. One night she succeeds in persuading the doctor of the prison who also is a woman, to be released. She fin

The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons

Shocking murders, massive manhunts and win-at-all-cost political campaigns propel this extraordinary story behind the enactment of the nation's toughest mandatory sentencing law.

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

Les prisons aussi...

The only film to emerge from France’s Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons was this collaboration between filmmaker and writer Hélène Châtelain and her colleague René Lefort which extends the GIP initiative to end the si

Off the Wall

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl

Prisoner of Bondage

Prisoner and Jailer

Prisoner and Jailer tells the story of two contrasting Libyans: a key official in the former regime and one of the most prominent figures of the post-revolutionary period in Libya. Through these two characters, we discov

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".

The Prisoner

Sonny and Dub once shared a cell. Now Sonny is a free man, but Dub is on death row and sentenced to be executed in a matter of days. As Sonny comes to visit Dub one last time, Dub has one last dying request for Sonny.

Death of a Prisoner

The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

Prisoner of the Old Manor

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