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Deadline
In January 2003, Republican Governor George Ryan granted blanket clemency to all 167 people on death row in Illinois, commuting their sentences to life without parole. With astounding access to ...
Released2004

Those Who Trespass
Four edlerly nuns feel so strongly about closing the School of the Americas -- where the U.S. has trained Latin American soldiers in combat and counter-insurgency since 1946 -- that they put their ...
Released2002

this black soil: a story of struggle and change
'this black soil' is the story of a community that fights the system, redefines the needs of poor people, and challenges all conventional ideas of community development. This documentary ...
Released2001

The Trials of Darryl Hunt
The Trials of Darryl Hunt is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. ...
Released2005

The Larry Davis Story: A Routine Typical Hit
A "Routine Typical Hit", is the story of a young man named Larry Davis. Who at the age of 19, took the NYC Police Department on one of the largest manhunts in the history of NY ...
Released2003

The Empty Chair
Tells four stories of murder victims' families reliving the crimes and confronting the loss of loved ones. Their instinct for revenge during tiral and the debate for punishment by death climaxes ...
Released2003

Thanatos Rx: The Death Penalty Debate in America
This fast paced documentary offers an even handed, non-partisan exploration of the many facets of this heated debate. Archival footage, intimate interviews with legal scholars, District Attorneys, ...
Released2001

Teach Our Children
The film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that coused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film ...

Voices From Within
Dramatizes the loneliness and desperation of long-term prisoners who are denied many of the benefits provided to short-term prisoners, and reveals the emotional damage done to them and their families ...

Women's Prison
Famously "banned" for more than a year by Iranian authorities, this taboo-breaking film is based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran. She depicts the lives ...
Released2002

What We Leave Behind
Through personal stories, poetry, group discussions and on-the-street interviews, women former prisoners share their experiences of incarceration as women and as mothers. They painfully address the ...
Released2000

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