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Publisher
Fox Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo where he finds a colossal treasure of gold and jewels bequeathed to him by a dying inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan to take vengeance on all those who betrayed him." --container....
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Red, a lifer who "knows how to get things" inside the bleak walls of Shawshank State Prison, finds himself drawn to new inmate Andy, a quiet banker with an indomitable will. As Andy brings hope and change to the entire prison, he turns out to be full of surprises.
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Tommy takes a burglary rap for Eddie, his troubled teenage friend and housemate. He is remanded to the State Industrial School, a reformatory for boys where a cruel prison guard and a prison doctor give inmates a dose of their own special medicine.
5) Mrs. Soffel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
True story of the wife of a prison warden who falls in love with a convicted murder imprisoned at her husbands penitentiary.
6) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in post-WWII Germany, all Dieter Dengler, the son of a Nazi slain during the war, dreamed about was becoming a pilot. At age 18 he emigrated to the United States and worked odd jobs until he was accepted into the Navy and began pilot training. He was sent to Vietnam around 1966 and on his first mission was shot down and taken prisoner. There, the Viet Cong tortured him until Dengler engineered a hair-raising escape and eventually returned...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The U.S.A. imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world. Behind 2.4 million prisoners lies an infinite ripple effect of incarceration on the family and community. A Sentence Apart follows three stories of people coping with a family member in prison, attempting to bridge broken relationships, and diligently working to reverse the generational cycle of incarceration. Tenea is a high school senior whose father has been in and out...
11) Runaway train
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Several convicts from a high-security prison escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Northeast wilderness. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners on a speeding train that is hurtling toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a sudden heart attack.
12) Andersonville
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The Civil War explodes, air thick with musket fire, soil drenched with the blood of kinsmen, bodies piling up like cords of wood. In the madness and fury, a small group of Union soldiers fall into the hands of the Confederate army. Overnight, they find themselves herded aboard a prison train bound for the deepest regions of the South, to a slice of Hell carved out of the Georgia clay known as Andersonville. A moving drama that tells the most tragic...
15) King Rat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
16) The great escape
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As World War II rages on, the Germans open Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history. Together, under the guidance of the brilliant Bartlett the resourceful Hendley, and the steely, determined Hilts, the men plot, scheme, and dig their way to freedom at any cost!
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of Allied prisoners of WWII and Asian laborers who painfully built the Thailand-Burma Railway along the Khwae River of Burma. This filmed production reveals that the World War II engineering project consumed the lives of 100,000 men and was very different from the events depicted by the famous movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai.
19) Susana
Publisher
Cinematica
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
A girl who escapes detention and hides out on a Spanish-American plantation destroys an uptight family with immoral schemes and feminine wiles.
20) Rescue dawn
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Film based on true events, U.S. fighter pilot Lt. Dieter Dengler is shot down and imprisoned during the Vietnam War and plans a daring escape with fellow captives.
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