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Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A group of inhabitants of a correctional colony for people of small stature raises a riot against the local order. Tired of adhering to the many rules that require good behavior from them, they decide to become bad. Their immediate leader (also a dwarf) is forced to take refuge in one of the premises while waiting for the police to arrive. Meanwhile, the rioters are having fun: they beat dishes and glasses, start a car and eventually break it, kill...
3) Civil brand
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Frances has been sent to the "pen" for killing her abusive husband. After being abused, violated and persecuted by the prison warden, the women from the cellblock rise up and revolt against the injustices of the penitentiary and the "new plantation" workplace that harvest human labor for big-time profit. Nothing will stop Frances and her fellow inmates in this brutal battle for justice.
4) Riot
Publisher
[Morningstar Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While the warden of a state prison is away, the isolation block erupts and 35 of the most violent criminals stage a riot and take over their portion of the prison. Cully Briston, in for five years and awaiting his eventual parole, wants no part of the riot. He impulsively gets involved, defending a prison guard and protecting him from the maniacs in the block. A prison break is planned as knives slash, fists fly, and blood is spilled.
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
On his first day on the job, prison officer Juan Olivier is knocked unconscious in a freak accident and his co-workers carry him to an empty cell. When he awakens, Juan discovers that he has been abandoned in the middle of a riot in a high-security cellblock, home to the prison's most dangerous criminals. If they discover he's a guard, he's dead meat. To survive, Juan must pose as a prisoner and conspire with the riot's vicious leader, Malamadre.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A wrongly court-martialed General is at odds with the corrupt Colonel acting as prison warden. Eventually, the General rallies the prisoners into an army to do battle with the Colonel and his troops for control of the prison, and their lives. Includes deleted scenes, commentary, featurettes, trailers, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 704
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
8) Riot
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While the warden of a state prison is away, the isolation block erupts and 35 of the most violent criminals stage a riot and take over their portion of the prison. Cully Briston, in for five years and awaiting his eventual parole, wants no part of the riot. He impulsively gets involved, defending a prison guard and protecting him from the maniacs in the block.
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
American History X: Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother Danny from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in...
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