Serving Life

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass...

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he...

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted...

Investigating the infamous Abu Ghraib scandal, Errol Morris interviews American guards and Iraqi prisoners who were at the military jail before...

The documentary depicts the remarkable phenomenon of the national competition Kalina Krasnaya, organised with a flourish in which the convicts from...

Every year, hundreds of women develop relationships with prisoners. They fall under the charms of killers, petty criminals, rapists and crooks. Most...

Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love...

An inside look at the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where one of the U.S.’s only in-prison college programs, Hudson Link, offers...

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

Switzerland is the only country in the world that allows foreigners to come and die on its territory. Since its founding in 1998, more than a...

A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' families.

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce...