The Penal Colony
A fictional film based on the true accounts of human rights abuse in a Mordovian prison.
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A fictional film based on the true accounts of human rights abuse in a Mordovian prison.
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent
Based on a story by Franz Kafka, this Philip Glass opera is set at the turn of the 20th century on a remote island where a high-ranking visitor arrives to witness the use of a strange machine in the execution of a prison
The last penal colonies in Europe are in Sardinia. Inmates serve their sentences by working the land, tending animals, and maintaining the prison.
Travelogue released on the 12th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.
This documentary delves into the history of the Rikers Island jail complex and the grassroots movement to shut it down.
Short directed by Georges-André Lacroix.
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain