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Observational documentary set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, California. Three members of the public participate in an intensive four-day group therapy retreat with level-four convicts. Over the four...
Never commercially released before and previously only shown to a highly restricted audience of top military brass from the Ministry of Defence, CAPTURED (1959) is a stunning POW drama and a lost gem of...
Documentary. A performance of scenes from Julius Caesar by inmates of the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia. One of them comments: ‘Ever since I discovered art this cell has truly become a prison’....
Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher tell the story of the largest field study in social psychology for over 30 years using original illustrative film from the BBC series. The first two sections of the DVD look at...
A dramatisation of the fate of the the so-called "Tipton Three" - locked up in Guantanamo Bay for over two years without a trial. Interviews with the real men involved are blended with re-enacted action.
A film directed by John Mackenzie dramatising the life of Jimmy Boyle who was reputed to be Scotland’s most violent man. After a hard upbringing he was twice charged and cleared of murder but was finally...
Documentary. Twenty male inmates of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange, Kentucky form an acting troupe and perform The Tempest. The film follows the inmates through a 40-week rehearsal...
A prison project initiated and supported by London Shakespeare Workout led by Bruce Wall. In ANIMATING MACBETH, the epilogue (read by Kenneth Branagh) is written in iambic verse by Clare, a woman...
The Experiment is a social and psychological exercise based on the infamous 1970s experiment first conducted by Philip Zimbardo in Stanford University and is one of the most ambitious pieces of social...
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...
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