Showing 1 - 10 of 40 titles with a criteria of Subject is Crime and Criminals

Battaglia

She's made a name for herself. She takes stark black and white photographs. In this impressionistic biography Letizia Battaglia is filmed in constant motion and color. A film about contrasts, on all levels.

First Hand Films | 2002 | 58 minutes

Beyond Bars

Son of Weather Underground activists imprisoned when he was a baby, Chesa Boudin's journey from a childhood shaped by incarceration to a reformist DA fighting for restorative justice is a story of trauma, resilience and hope

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 98 minutes

Broken Lines

Joe Soll has spent half of his life searching for his birth parents, in the process he uncovered a mystery that’s haunted him for years.

MediaStorm | 2011 | 10 minutes

A Common Purpose

The trial of the "Upington 25" in South Africa in 1986 saw twenty-five men and women from a black township tried for the murder of a local black policeman.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 75 minutes

Contact, Ep. 7 - Yakuza by Bruce Gilden

Members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, are revealed in a series of irreverent photographs taken by Bruce Gilden.

First Hand Films | 2014 | 26 minutes

Conviction

Bianca, Treena, Laura, and Caitlin are a stark reflection of the troubling worldwide tendency to criminalize and imprison the most vulnerable in society—those most affected by poverty, addiction, childhood trauma, and mental illness.

National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 78 minutes

Dr. Feelgood

The case of Dr. William Hurwitz educates audiences on the complexities involved in opioid painkiller prescriptions.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 84 minutes

El Sicario, Room 164

The story of a hitman for the drug cartels, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 84 minutes

Excellent Cadavers

A dramatic investigation of the recent history of the Mafia and its integral relationship to postwar Italian politics. Based on the book by Alexander Stille.

First Hand Films | 2006 | 92 minutes

Fujian Blue

Two interweaving stories of youth crime and family crisis shed light on illegal emigration and human trafficking in China's Fujian province.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 90 minutes