In 1986, the Peruvian Armed Forces violently suppressed a riot at El Frontón prison. 122 prisoners, accused of terrorism, were killed. This documentary presents the account of Julio Yovera, one of the survivors of the massacre, about his motivations and experiences as a former member of Shining Path. A controversial yet honest perspective on the Peruvian internal armed conflict, a period that has received little critical reflection.
In 1986, the Peruvian Armed Forces violently suppressed a riot at El Frontón prison. 122 prisoners, accused of terrorism, were killed. This documentary presents the account of Julio Yovera, one of the survivors of the massacre, about his motivations and experiences as a former member of Shining Path. A controversial yet honest perspective on the Peruvian internal armed conflict, a period that has received little critical reflection.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant, awaiting trial for embezzlement with a possible 20 years sentence, joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty.
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.