San Quentin Unlocked

San Quintin is one of the most infamous prisons in the world. With up to 5,000 inmates at any time and up to 600 of them on the largest death row in the USA. In the documentary the crew have been given 30 days to film within the prison, they hear from both sides the prisoners and the prison guards. In often brutally honest interviews we get to see inside the minds of cold blooded killers.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2007 Duration: 48 Minutes.

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Devil's Island: Colonies Of The Condemned

Colonies of the Condemned narrated by Stacy Keach is a series that looks at some of the most harsh prison colony's in history and in this documentary we discover perhaps the most severe. Devils Island located in French Guiana acted as a prison colony for over 100 years from 1852 to 1953 those sentenced to time there could look forward to a strict labour camp were beatings were common and even execution by guillotine was used. In the film we travel back to the forgotten Island and learn some of the history behind this colony of the condemned.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2002 Duration: 50 Minutes.

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Inside Death Row

In 1980 TV cameras were for the first time allowed to film a prison death row when they visited Florida State Prison. We meet three inmates sentenced to death, they tell us their story as they await their destiny. With the footage shot over 30 years ago it is in many ways a look back at the penal system and attitudes to the death sentence at the time, although many of the issues survive today.

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Mr.Death The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter

Frederick Leuchter Junior is an odd character with an interesting profession, and past. Leuchter is the son of a prison worker and as such he claims to have witnessed an execution when he was young. This was the start of a path that led him to working on electric chairs and instruments used for execution in prisons across the United States.

The film by Errol Morris introduces us to a slight geeky looking man who in his own words is doing a job someones gotta do. Even if that meant at times even taking his work home which he did when he took the electric chair from a Tennessee prison to his house to work on. If someone working on tools for execution was not enough for a good documentary the plot takes a twist as we learn of Leuchter's connection's to Ernst Zündel a published and Jailed Holocaust denier.

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