The Vault
Silent Grace
2001 ★ 6.7In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating them as pri
Battle for Castle Itter
2025 ★ 3.0A small detachment of the 12th Armored Division is sent to rescue French political prisoners near the end of WWII. The soldiers take an instant dislike to the e
Last to Know
2006 ★ 8.0In the documentary Last To Know political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East German regime that existed until the German reunification in 1990
Hot House
2006 ★ 0.0In a candid and unflinching portrait of Palestinian prisoners, Shimon Dotan takes viewers inside the highest security prisons in Israel where thousands of Pales
Homeland
2011 ★ 7.6CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul B
Duck, You Sucker
1971 ★ 7.7At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam
Four Days in September
1997 ★ 7.5Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is
Where Did Tom Go?
1971 ★ 7.4Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends u
Plantados
2021 ★ 5.3The film narrates the most horrible tortures that political prisoners "Plantados" received from the Castro regime. Plantados is a drama film released in the Uni
Falcons of Edo
1978 ★ 8.5In the 1770's, the shrewdest man of the age, Tanuma Okitsugu, had abused his political power, and the corruption of government officials and moral decay of the
Punishment Park
1971 ★ 7.4In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to
A Common Man
2013 ★ 6.0A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released. A Common Man is a 2013
A Police Inspector Calls
1974 ★ 7.7The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power,
World in Action
1963 ★ 7.0World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investi
Hunger
2008 ★ 7.2The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status. D
'Allo 'Allo!
1984 ★ 7.8The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France. Allo Allo is a British sitcom television series cr
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010 ★ 7.8After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Out to the World
1994 ★ 6.3A satirical allegory of contemporary South Korean politics, the film follows the exploits of two convicts who accidentally escape while being transferred to ano
They Came From Somewhere Else
1984 ★ 5.7They Came From Somewhere Else is a British sitcom that was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 1984. It pastiches numerous horror films including Da
Saladin
1963 ★ 7.3The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade. Saladin is a 1963 f
Division 19
2017 ★ 5.6In 2039, jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopti
If the Birds Sing
2026 ★ 0.0We retrace the path that was used by the women who walked up to the penitentiary of Fort San Cristóbal to help political prisoners between 1934 and 1945, as Spa