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Portrays a number of prisoners and ex-prisoners of the New York state prison system. Some of them have organised to reform the prison system, including Eddie Ellis, a former ‘Black Panther’ imprisoned...
The last in a four-part series on the criminal justice system in the US called LOCK DOWN USA, made for broadcast on PBS. Among the reforms that followed the 1971 uprising at Attica, prison college programs...
Introduces social psychology by looking at the subject matter, its methods of investigation and its findings. Covers affiliation, attribution theory, cognitive dissonance, conformity, and aggression....
The original 1978 television documentary SCARED STRAIGHT! followed 17 juvenile offenders as they learnt first-hand the harsh realities of prison life from ‘lifers’ at the Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison...
Second update of SCARED STRAIGHT! (1978), in which men and women who as juvenile offenders 20 years earlier met face-to-face hardened criminals in Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison. Narrated by Danny Glover.
David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay man, is one of the few who dare to publicly protest state-sanctioned homophobia. A new ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ proposes death for HIV-positive gay men, and...
A documentary- drama based on a true case history researched by MIND, the National Association for Mental Health. The play starts when Colin, a social worker for MIND, discovers Christine, a 14-year-old...
Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the commandos...
Three 8-minute films: 1) A CENSOR’S LIFE: In Azerbaijan, where censorship has officially been stopped, journalists still struggle to print the truth. This story follows the daily life of a censor in the...
DVD set brings together twelve of John Pilger’s most hard-hitting and inspirational films. Drawing extensively on eye-witness testimony, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war...
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