Veterans Behind Bars

A film about incarcerated veterans from Fritzi Horstman, founder and executive director of the Compassion Prison Project.

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars

For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.

The Krays: Gangsters Behind Bars

Steve Wraith had a fascination with the Krays, and after writing them letters Reg took an instant liking to him, even requesting Steve visit with his brother Ron, in Broadmoor. They would go on to ask Steve to take over

Bars and Stripes

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars

A suicidal drunk-driver is forced to serve as bait to lure young girls into a private sanitarium that sells them to harems. One day, he runs into a woman who claims to be Marilyn Monroe.

Ian Brady: 50 Years Behind Bars

As 2015 marks a half a century since the Moors murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment, this documentary examines Ian Brady's 50 years in jail. Among the contributors are prison officers, detectives, relatives of vic

Dead Behind Bars

200 young people under 25 have died in custody since 1992 in England and Wales. This is the story of three of them; young men who died behind bars - told by the people who knew them best, it explores the flaws in the sys

Prisons Without Bars

A foray into the unknown world of an emerging disease: environmental hypersensitivity.

Cinema Behind Bars

Closed cinemas. Primarily visually approached. Not spectacularly, but quietly and carefully. The symbolism of closed, derelict cinemas is strong. Their demise wasn't for economic, but for political and religious reasons.

Whispers Beyond Bars

When a young pregnant woman discovers a hidden journal among her grandmother’s keepsakes, she uncovers the story of an incarcerated mother navigating pregnancy behind bars. As the pages unfold, the film weaves between fr

College Behind Bars

Men and women serving time in New York struggle to turn their lives around in a liberal arts college degree programme.

Boxing Behind Bars

Two drug convicts serving prison sentences are vying to be Thailand's first female boxers to garner a professional World Boxing Title. 23-year-old Siriporn - aka Black Rose - is fighting from behind bars for a pardon on

Dostoevsky Behind Bars

University graduate students and prison inmates meet weekly to discuss literature and share personal essays and stories. Classroom sessions and interviews explode the stereotypes of brutish convicts, out-of-touch scholar

Dinner Behind Bars

This is a story of second opportunities for women who never had a first one. Shot and edit entirely on mobile devices.

Lula: Behind Bars

Born behind bars

Born Behind Bars is a documentary about detention within the female section of Johannesburg Correctional Centre. It looks behind the high walls and iron doors to tell the story of Morwesi Theledi, who was awaiting trial

Born Behind Bars

Then there is also Born Behind Bars, a moving documentary about a mother who is pregnant when she is sentenced to ten years in prison.

Rattle Them Bars

A film by Nena Hedrick.

Babies Behind Bars

Follow the emotional journeys of inmates who give birth behind bars and are permitted to stay with their newborns in a prison maternity wing.

Dance of the Steel Bars

This riveting feature film about redemption follows Frank Parish, a retired US fireman and philanthropist who finds himself wrongly accused of murder and jailed in the Philippines. Stuck in prison, Frank was beginning to