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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...
August 1945-46: Japan surrenders. World War II is over, and Canadian prisoners are released from Japanese war camps. In Canada, as elsewhere, the task of rehabilitation begins. In Ottawa the Gouzenko case...
Includes Hitler visiting victims of the Bomb Plot (July 1944) in hospital and talking to a wide range of members of the Nazi hierarchy. Major Remer (prominent in the supression of the plot) addresses...
Covers the last stages of the battle. Lays particular stress on the magnitude of the victory - the number of German dead, equipment abandoned and destroyed, high ranking officers surrendering (including von...
A political biography of Nelson Mandela and his unique role in the liberation struggle in South Africa, as an individual and as an executive member of the African National Congress. Even in 1985, after 23...
In PRISONER OR PATIENT Horizon investigates how society deals with mentally ill offenders. Are special hospitals really a soft option? How do we choose to deal with psychopaths and how do we treat inadequate...
A campaign film on the invasion of Crete. Because the loss of life was so heavy on this occasion Hitler never again used airborne troops for a major invasion. This newsreel gives a completely different...
This in-depth look at the mistreatment prisoners of the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, focuses on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan, who was tortured and killed in 2002. The film uses...
In 1993, photojournalists Christopher Riley and Doug Niven discovered photographic evidence of one of Cambodia’s most infamous prison camps. The Khymer Rouge guerrillas had photographed each of the 14,200...
Records the last 14 days in the life of death row inmate Edward Earl Johnson, up until 15 minutes prior to his execution in May 1987. Shows how a scheduled execution affects prisoners, prison personnel and...
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