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The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

January 1999 •English

The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It focuses primarily on the inmates experiences in the rodeo. For a lot of those prisoners, the rodeo seems to be the only thing they have to look forward to. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Miracle of Hope

January 2007 •English

Known for years as one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the setting for one of the most moving concerts ever given by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers. Recorded live, this new DVD features a magnificent, full concert PLUS a powerful docu-video complete with inmate interviews and testimonies focusing on the amazing spiritual revival that is occurring within the prison.

The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation

April 2008 •English

The gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana's prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners.

Serving Life

July 2011 •English

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker, the film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years.

The Farm: Angola, USA

January 1998 •English

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm

June 2009 •English

This documentary depicts the life inside the walls of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. See what life is like inside Angola, a self-sustaining agricultural community that boasts five new churches and its own inmate-run TV and radio station.

Letters to Angola

January 2009 •English

What have a young English girl and a Black Panther convicted of murder got to say to each other?

Who are the Angola 3?

Invalid date •English

Three black man collectively have wrongly served 100 years in solitary confinement.

Brotherly Dance

July 2004 •Serbian

Savo from Kikinda (Serbia) and his brother recall how they called communal service few years back to empty the septic tank in their backyard. As careless servicemen weren't coming for days, Savo staged his death by drowning in the hole. Communal service sent three trucks while Savo was looking at them from the attic. A story of a small man who fought the system and won, only to become a huge YouTube hero afterwards.

Martin Lawrence Doin’ Time

September 2016 •English

Comedy legend Martin Lawrence returns to the stand-up stage for a night of impressions and insight on everything from sex, relationships and President Obama, to Bill Cosby, Hollywood and more. Filmed live at LA's Orpheum Theatre.

1999 A.D.

January 1967 •English

A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer Philco-Ford. In the "1999 House of Tomorrow", each family member's activities are enabled by a central computer and revolve around products remarkably similar to those made by the sponsor. Power comes from a self-contained fuel cell which supports environmental controls, an automatic cooking system, and a computer-assisted "education room".

Street Musicians of Bombay

July 1994 •English

Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of street performers, eking out a modest living. We see individuals and groups, old and young, snake charmers and those hired to sing at family celebrations. A few talk about their lives and refute accusations of kidnapping lodged against the caste. A troupe of women sing at a party for a pregnant woman - they are saucy and blunt, encouraging and sisterly.

The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch

May 2002 •English

A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch.

Sweet Sounds

October 1976 •English

This short documentary, shot in July 1976 at the Mannes College of Music on Manhattan's Upper East Side, marks the first collaboration between Merchant Ivory Films and composer Richard Robbins, who would go on to provide the musical scores for nearly all Merchant Ivory films. Later in 1976, 'Sweet Sounds' was shown at the New York and London Film Festivals. It was also broadcast on PBS.

Venice: Theme and Variations

March 1957 •English

Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that, although only 28 minutes long, is rich in composition and aesthetic texture.

Tell Mario not to Come Back

November 2007 •Spanish

After a long exile in Venezuela, filmmaker Mario Handler returns to his country, Uruguay. There, the dictatorship is still present in the media, public opinion, and in the memory of people. The director feels he owes something to the comrades, those who could not leave the country. This debt translates into poetry, black humor and conscience, in a sharp and accurate atmosphere of this dark time of Uruguay.

Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to Democracy

March 2002 •English

Aftershocks is about the transformation of the Welfare State into an ally of the Corporation. It examines the acquisition and displacement of two earthquake-affected villages for lignite mining and power generation. It probes the microcosm in the nature of a study "from below" of globalisation of Economy and corporatisation of Democracy

Les Gazolines

November 2012 •French

Founded in 1972, this loose Parisian movement is known for having given radical visibility to homosexuals during the 1970s in the wake of student and proletarian uprisings of 1968, which had given little space to the liberation of women and homosexuals.

Getting Involved

May 2022 •English

Getting involved is a comedy documentary film that focuses on youth engagement surrounding UK politics. Ross Uwen and his crew are on a mission to get young people involved in politics by any means possible which politicians and other organisations are consistently failing at. Believing that televised news is a great way to become politically educated they try to devise a plan to get young adults watching the news by combining it with adult softcore material to entice viewers to tune in regularly and therefore becoming politically aware and potentially engaged. When you run out of traditional methods you've got to think outside the box and that's what Getting Involved is all about.

Terezin, l'Imposture Nazie

September 2019 •French