Prison Riot Movies

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally,...

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail...

Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these...

Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards...

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a...