EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at ...

The Oscar-contending short film 'Exodus,' directed by Nimco Sheikhaden, follows two women released from prison and asks "What ...

The gruesome murder of Dee Dee Blanchard shocked the entire nation. However, the case became even weirder when authorities discovered that her terminally ill daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, was ...

Former WBRC anchor Beth Shelburne worked as a producer on a new HBO documentary examining the serious problems within Alabama’s prison system, revealing that filmmakers’ research documented 1,377 ...

PARKERSBURG — The MOV Reentry Council will host a free documentary screening and community planning session to address prison reform at 5 p.m. Friday at the Smoot Theater. “The First Step,” described ...

A jury of five incarcerated men selected the film “Songs From the Hole,” directed by Contessa Gayles, as winner of the top award at the first-ever film festival to be held at Sing Sing prison in ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Lifetime is offering up an array of intriguing true-crime documentaries to start the new year. On Thursday, Casey Anthony’s Parents: The Lie Detector Test aired on A&E ...

Documentaries serve as a flashlight in a dark room – casting light on subjects, people, things, that you may not be privy to. And when a documentary is done with journalistic integrity, it can be as ...

“Daughters” is not your standard prison documentary. An intimate and deeply moving look at the program Date With Dad, which since 2008 has united incarcerated fathers with their daughters for a ...

The Prison Show documentary will be screened June 2 at the DeLUXE Theater in Houston. Credit: Screenshot “You remember the pain. You remember solitary confinement. You remember picking cotton in ...

Sing Sing garnered much acclaim (and should have gotten more Oscar nominations) for how it explores prisoners having their humanity be more deeply recognized through practicing an art form. Sing Sing ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an ...