Movies and TvShows featuring "life-in-prison" theme.

After being accused of murdering his wife, an African-American man is sentenced to life in prison. As he struggles with racial discrimination, isolation, and the haunting ghost of his dead wife, he begins to question his own sanity. With the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist, he must navigate the horrors of the prison system and uncover the truth behind his wife's death.

William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.

Serving Life is a documentary that showcases a groundbreaking hospice program, where inmates in a Louisiana prison care for their fellow prisoners who are terminally ill. It provides a rare glimpse into the lives of these inmates as they find redemption and purpose in serving others.

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer and sentenced to death in a trial marked by controversial prosecutorial and defense tactics and charges of racism.

How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nuremberg trial —formally, the International Military Tribunal— built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the films and records produced by the own regime, obsessed with documenting everything in its long path of infamy and crime.

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Marine veteran and former middleweight boxing champion Julian Taylor loses control in a bar fight and ends up serving time for aggravated assault. Soon after his arrival, Julian is introduced to Captain Brown, a menacing, overbearing guard who tags him "Dogboy" and orders him to a claustrophobic dormitory called the doghouse. There, Julian meets fellow inmate Willy Owens and learns that the prison's vicious attack dogs are used to catch and kill escaping prisoners.

Richard Hall is a successful writer, while his wife, Alice, is interested in pursuing a career as a singer. She meets James Hamilton, a musical agent, who arranges an opera engagement with Rimini, an impresario. Hall quarrels with his wife over this, and they separate, with Hall taking their daughter Grace.

The Legend of the Ugly King is a gripping biography documentary that delves into the life of a renowned Turkish film director. The story revolves around his struggles and challenges as an artist living under a military dictatorship. It explores themes of censorship, exile, and the filmmaker's revolutionary spirit. The documentary also sheds light on the director's experiences in prison and his fight against propaganda. With a focus on the Cannes Film Festival, it unravels the filmmaker's journey as an enemy of the state and his contributions to the portrayal of Kurdish culture. The Legend of the Ugly King ultimately highlights the director's commitment to filmmaking and his enduring legacy.

In a juvenile prison three young delinquents are forced to reinvent themselves under the preventive custody of the state. Absurd psychotherapeutic conversations are alternated with intimate moments when the boys film themselves in the solitude of the night.

Across the United States, violent crime in prison is an everyday reality, with inmates routinely exposed to assault, riot, rape and murder. Anatomy of a Prison Murder examines the culture of institutional violence through the events that led to one burtal prison murder. Utah State Prison surveillance cameras capture this disturbing real-life account of the vicious stabbing of black inmate Lonnie Blackmon by convicted murderer, white supremacist Troy Kell and his accomplice Eric Daniels.

Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.

In an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls serve their sentence for the grave crime of murdering their father, their husband or another male family member.

Charged. Convicted. Sentenced to Death. Innocent. Follows the 1st death row inmate exonerated by DNA in the US.