Movies and TvShows featuring "miserable-chain-gang-conditions" theme.

Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.

In the 19th century, an African-American man is unjustly incarcerated in the Yuma Territorial Prison. He becomes the sole survivor of an ambush, and a reporter interviews him about the incident. The story is entirely told in flashback, revealing the blood-stained journey of the prisoner, including his escape attempt, dig a grave, and pursuit by fugitives. The plot takes a surprising twist as the reporter uncovers the truth behind the ambush.

An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.

Mike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.

A shackled murderer and marijuana offender escape from a Georgia chain gang.

In Hell's Highway (1932), a young man joins a state prison chain gang and exposes the brutal and hypocritical conditions. Through the power of music and his own sacrifice, he tries to bring about prison reform and escape from the horrors he faces.

A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.