Letters to Angola

Sometimes it feels like we live in different worlds. But really, we're not that far away.

When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.

Amalia and Georg work together at a modest Hungarian perfumerie, and have disliked each other from the very beginning. He thinks she's stuck up, and s...

Gina and Seth have been pen pals for 13 years and now will have the chance to meet. Both used their best friends pictures to send to each other and no...

The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It focuses primarily on th...

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and s...

A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all acro...

A film documenting the life of Richard Aoki, a Japanese-American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.

Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines their efforts to promote the rights of African America...

Known for years as one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the setting for one of the most movin...

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High Schoo...

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year...

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.