Robban
The documentary portrays a boy’s vulnerable childhood and upbringing with his single mother. It was filmed while Robban was staying at a treatment facility, after a prison sentence had been converted into care.
The documentary portrays a boy’s vulnerable childhood and upbringing with his single mother. It was filmed while Robban was staying at a treatment facility, after a prison sentence had been converted into care.
The documentary portrays a boy’s vulnerable childhood and upbringing with his single mother. It was filmed while Robban was staying at a treatment facility, after a prison sentence had been converted into care.
A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.
Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster system and kickstart a movement in the process.
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.