En 1943 los nazis, exasperados por el número de fugas de sus prisiones por un número relativamente pequeño de prisioneros aliados, deciden trasladarlos a todos a una prisión de alta seguridad "a prueba de fugas" durante el resto de la guerra. Los presos no tardan en trazar el plan de uno de los intentos de fuga más ambiciosos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Basado en una historia real.

December 16, 1973

"Papillon", un hombre condenado por asesinato, es enviado a un penal de la Guayana francesa. Durante el viaje en barco, conoce a Luis Dega, falsificador de Bonos de la Defensa Nacional, un hombre débil, al que "Papillon" ofrece protección a cambio del dinero que necesita para huir de la cárcel.

August 24, 2018

Henri “Papillon” Charrière está en la cárcel por un crimen que no ha cometido. Condenado a cadena perpetua y enviado a una prisión de la Guayana Francesa, salva la vida a otro preso, Louis Dega, un falsificador de documentos que decide ayudarle a escapar. Juntos planean el más increíble plan de fuga.

Robert Stroud es un preso conflictivo que ha sido condenado a cumplir una pena de doce años en una celda incomunicada. Cierto día comienza a cuidar a un pájaro herido que encuentra en la ventana de su celda y, a partir de entonces, descubre que su verdadera vocación es el estudio y la cría de aves.

October 9, 2009

Biopic sobre Michael Peterson (apodado Charles Bronson), considerado "el hombre más peligroso del Reino Unido". Bronson es un exboxeador extremadamente violento que lleva 34 años en prisión, aunque nunca ha sido sentenciado por asesinato. (FILMAFFINITY)

A Patsy Gargan, un antiguo criminal, sus corruptos compinches políticos le pagan sus servicios nombrándolo inspector de un reformatorio. Al principio no muestra ningún interés por la escuela, pero la simpatía que siente por los niños que son víctimas de abusos y maltrato por parte del despiadado director y sus matones, lo empuja a aceptar el trabajo.

Guerra de Corea (1950-1953). Después de pasar dos años prisionero en un campo de concentración, el Capitán Edward Hall vuelve a los Estados Unidos y es acusado de colaborar con el enemigo.

Cuando una brillante psiquiatra investiga el funcionamiento de una nueva técnica que se les va a aplicar a los presos condenados a muerte, averigua que van a ejecutar a un inocente. Ante tal injusticia, intentará desenmascarar al verdadero asesino.

For decades, the United States has been fixated on incarceration, building prisons and locking up more and more people. But at what cost, and has it really made a difference? FRONTLINE goes to the epicenter of the raging debate about incarceration in America, focusing on the controversial practice of solitary confinement and on new efforts to reduce the prison population, as officials are rethinking what to do with criminals.

April 16, 2016

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the Pope. Situated in rural Virginia, 300 miles from any urban center, Red Onion State Prison is one of over 40 supermax prisons across the US built to hold prisoners in eight-by-ten-foot cells for 23 hours a day. Filmed over the course of one year, this eye-opening film braids stark prison imagery, stories from correction officers, and intimate reflections from the men who are locked up in isolation. The inmates share the paths that led them to prison and their daily struggles to maintain their sanity.

Anika Price's LCAD Experimental Animation Senior thesis film.

April 18, 2017

In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Bafta and Emmy-winning film-maker Dan Edge and his co-director Lauren Mucciolo were given unprecedented access to the solitary unit - and filmed there for more than three years. The result is an extraordinary and harrowing portrait of life in solitary - and a unique document of a radical and risky experiment to reform a prison. The US is the world leader in solitary confinement. More than 80,000 American prisoners live in isolation, some have been there for years, even decades. Solitary is proven to cause mental illness, it is expensive, and it is condemned by many as torture. And yet for decades, it has been one of the central planks of the American criminal justice system.

Hum

August 24, 2015

A solitary dish washing robot living out his life in the back room of a restaurant is enlightened to the world that exists beyond his four walls, with the help of a small friend he breaks free of confinement to pursue his dream of exploration.

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