
"AN AMERICAN JAIL"
This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island Jail. They tell their compelling stories direct to the camera, revealing the violent arc of the Rikers experience – from the trauma of entry to extortion and control by inmates, to oppressive corrections officers, violence and solitary confinement.
Director: Marc Levin

Bill Moyers
Host
Tariq Barnes
Self
Barry Campbell
Hector Custodio
Candie Hailey-Means
Robert Hinton
Kathy Morse
Five Mualimm-Ak

Kristina Talking Pictures
1976

Nursery University
2008

Flow: For Love of Water
2008

Paris Is Burning
1991

Liza Minnelli, la dernière héritière d'Hollywood
2025

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
2017

Prisoners of the War on Drugs
1996

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
2017

Left Behind
2025

9/11: Stories from the City
2002

The Capote Tapes
2021

On the Road with Mary
2005
Browse more by genre: