La Bella Vita

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin...

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and...

A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at...

Striving to provide for her child amid a crisis, Mariana becomes entangled in a narcotics case, ultimately finding her true realization as a mother...

Andrés Rabadán was headline news after killing his father with a crossbow. But beyond the chatter of the media, what is the true story...

Omar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more than 30 years — never out longer than six...

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.

A documentary chronicling 17 years of Mark David Allen's alcohol abuse.

Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears...

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had...