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Aug 23, 2023 · 3) The Farm: Angola, USA. I can’t believe I missed this classic the first time I wrote this “Best Prison Docs” article! “The Farm: Angola, USA” is the best documentary on Angola Prison I’ve found. Angola Prison is called “The Alcatraz of the South” (it’s official name is The Lousiana State Penitentiary).
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- Time: The Kalief Browder Story
- Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison
- Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail
- Survivors Guide to Prison
- The Fear of 13
- I Am A Killer
- Rock and A Hard Place
13this without a doubt one of the best Netflix prison documentaries out there. But it differs from a lot of the other films on this list because it doesn’t focus on life behind bars. Instead, it focuses on the whole prison system, the history of it, and the very unsettling racial disparity that has come to define it. Your head will be filled with s...
Time: The Kalief Browder Storyis an unbelievable prison documentary series from Netflix that gives you a terrifying glimpse into one of the United States’ most infamous jails – Rikers Island. This gut-wrenching prison documentary tells the devastating story of Kalief Browder, a 16-year old boy that was arrested for stealing a backpack – something h...
Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prisonis an amazing HBO prison documentary with a unique angle that will completely captivate you – it is almost entirely from the perspective of prisoners that have spent years (for some, decades) in solitary confinement. No matter what you believe, this will change how you think about solitary confinement. You see...
Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jailgives you one of the most in-depth views of what life is like for the inmates of one of the US’s largest jail systems. Louis Theroux is an amazing journalist and producer who’s able to carry a conversation with the inmates in a way most people can’t…which means you get to really hear what they’re thinking, feeling, and...
Matthew Cooke’s perspective in Survivors Guide to Prisonmakes this prison documentary a unique, disturbing, and eye-opening film about our current justice system and the people that find themselves victim to it. This new prison documentary covers a ton of topics pertaining to both our prison and justice systems from wrongful convictions and police ...
The Fear of 13is definitely one of the best prison documentaries out there, narrated entirely by Nick Yarris, an inmate on death row. Yarris’ accounts of his life, what got him to death row, and what it’s like to be an inmate are so captivating that you’ll forget he is the only person featured in this entire prison documentary. But the ending is wh...
Nowadays, when Netflix releases a new docuseries, you better clear your calendar because they’ve all been home runs. And that is absolutely the case with I Am a Killer, the newest in the growing family of Netflix prison documentaries. Each episode profiles a different inmate on death row…and each case is a unique, shocking, and terrifying glimpse i...
Rock and a Hard Placeis a special kind of prison documentary because it doesn’t focus on the crimes or life behind bars. Instead, it profiles a rehabilitation boot camp in Miami that is offered to young and juvenile offenders in place of their potential prison sentence…which for some, could be life in prison. What is so eye-opening about this docum...
- American Symphony. Tracking a year in the life of husband and wife Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad, documentarian Matthew Heineman's (Cartel Land, City Of Ghosts) latest is a soulful exploration of love, art, and the beautiful things found and forged within moments of profound pain.
- Sly. Never one to be outdone by his old rival Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone doc Sly follows hot on the heels of Arnie as another warts-and-all portrait of an 80s action hero.
- Beckham. Directed by Fisher Stevens (yes, he of Succession fame), this four-part limited series gives one-time Galactico and all-time great football and cultural icon David Beckham the in-depth prestige doc treatment.
- Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99. Forget putting out fires with gasoline, at the ill-fated and now infamous Woodstock ‘99, ringmasters John Scher and Michael Lang were putting out fires with bigger fires - and also Fire, by Jimi Hendrix.
- Orange is the New Black (2013-2019) ‘Orange Is the New Black‘ is probably the most well-known series on this list. It tells the story of a young woman who gets sent to prison because of her past life that involved smuggling drugs along with her lesbian lover.
- Prison Playbook (2017-2018) ‘Prison Playbook’ is a South Korean comedy-drama series that revolves around the life of a Baseball pitcher who is almost at the peak of his career but somehow lands himself in prison after he tries to protect his sister from a sexual assault.
- Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (2016-) Do you know what’s worse than being in prison? Being in the prison of a foreign country. This show’s host, Paul Connelly, takes us on a journey through these hostile foreign prisons and shows us the horrifying realities of these places.
- First and Last (2018) ‘First and Last’ is a Netflix series that documents the lifespan of individuals throughout their prison time. It starts by rolling cameras on the freshly arrested inmates and then shares their journey, all the way up to their last few days in the prison and till the very end of their journeys in the facility.
Jul 18, 2018 · 1 Season. Netflix. The Lock Up franchise has quite a few different variations, many of which are on Netflix. This particular show, Lock Up: County Jails, takes place in various county jails across ...
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Raphael Rowe investigates one of Greece’s most overcrowded maximum-security prisons, overflowing with some of the country’s most dangerous offenders. Release year: 2021. Raphael Rowe, who spent years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, volunteers to go behind bars in the Philippines, Greenland and South Africa.
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Nov 2, 2021 · Updated on Nov 2, 2021 at 5:59 PM. Netflix. There are a variety of prison documentaries on Netflix that give glimpses into various aspects of life in jail. The popularity of true-crime ...
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