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

A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found...

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.

Experimental documentary about the Venezuelan prison Retén de Catia.

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

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 -...

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

Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny...

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances...

In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German...