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Incarcerating Us (2016)

Director

Regan Hines

Producer

Vincent Vittorio

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 84 minutes), $15.99

Feature-length documentary that exposes America’s prison problem and explores ways to implement vital criminal justice reforms. With 2.3 million people behind bars, the US has the largest prison population...

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Beautiful Sentence (2011)

Director

Suzanne Cohen

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Female prisoners experience the liberating effect of creative writing with the help of inspirational poet Leah Thorn, writer-in-residence at HMP Bronzefield, a high security women’s prison in Middlesex....

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Real Little Dorrit, The: Charles Dickens and Debtors Prisons

David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction, using records from the National Archives as he explains what Victorian debtors’ prisons were really like and how accurate Dickens’...

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Mass Trespass (2018)

aka: Trespass of Kinder Scout

Director

Jordan Carroll

Subject

History; Law; Social Studies

Why were six men sent to prison 1932 for simply walking in the moors of the Peak District? This short documentary tells their fascinating story and also gives details regarding the National Parks and Access...

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Four Days Inside Guantanamo (2010)

aka: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo

Director

Luc Côté; Patricio Henriquez; Andrea Henriquez

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £9.99

FOUR DAYS INSIDE GUANTANAMO is a documentary based on security camera footage from the Guantánamo Bay prison. Based on seven hours of video footage declassified by the Canadian courts, this documentary...

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Five Steps to Tyranny (2011)

Director

Elizabeth McIntyre

Subject

Psychology; Social Studies

This film analyses the movement of a society from freedom to tyranny in five steps. It shows how those in positions of power may cultivate the conditions of tyranny in any population by demonstrating how...

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Criminal Justice - Pretrial Detention (2007)

Subject

Law

The excessive use (and length) of pre-trial detention is one of the main causes of prison overpopulation. Owing to the risk of flight, non-resident suspects are often remanded in custody, while residents...

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Don’t Make Me Angry (4 Parts) (2008)

Subject

Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology

This series of four programmes features teenagers who decide that their short temper is no longer acceptable. They work with psychologist Dr Rachel Andrew to identify and manage the situations that make them...

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Oath, The (2010)

Director

Laura Poitras

Subject

Arabic studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £9.99

Two men who were part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network look back on their past in this documentary from director Laura Poitras. Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Abu Jandal was one of bin Laden’s...

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Facing Anorexia (2008)

Director

Jessica Villerius

Subject

Health Education; Medical sciences; Mental Health and Counselling; Psychology; Social welfare

Bodies have been the subject for admiration, sexualisation, derision and of course competition - the rules ever changing throughout centuries and across cultures. But the West’s obsession with body shapes...

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