Query: Documentary films about law enforcement and the penal system in any country besides the US
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Hangman's Graveyard
The Impossible Itself
Four Men in Prison
Minoru: Memory of Exile
Journey Back to Youth
Where to Invade Next
No Burqas Behind Bars
Bunso
A Hard Name
Waseskun
P4W: Prison for Women
La Corona (film)
Death and the Judge
Out of Bounds (2005 film)
Life Somewhere Else
Love Crimes of Kabul
12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary
The Mouth of the Wolf (2009 film)
Evidence from documents: Hangman's Graveyard: a Canadian documentary film which was originally broadcast in Canada on History Television on December 6, 2009. A work-in-progress screening of the film was presented at the Ontario Archaeological Society’s 36th annual symposium and as the opening film of DocFest Stratford in October 2009. The film follows an archaeological investigation at Toronto's old Don Jail beginning in September 2007.
The Impossible Itself: '''''The Impossible Itself''''' is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by Jacob Adams to cover the 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett stage play ''Waiting For Godot'' that was taken to San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates, with an examination of an earlier incarnation of ''Godot'' as performed by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany in 1953.
Four Men in Prison: ''''Four Men In Prison''''' is a 1950 documentary film about English prison conditions
Minoru: Memory of Exile: '''''Minoru: Memory of Exile''''' is a 1992 animated documentary about the Japanese Canadian internment by Michael Fukushima. The film recreates the experiences of the filmmaker's father, Minoru, who as a child was sent along with his family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians to internment camps in the interior of British Columbia.
Journey Back to Youth: Documentary films: '''Journey Back to Youth''''' (, Puteshestvie v yunost) is a 2001 documentary film by Russian film makers Alexander Gutman and Sergei Litviakov
law enforcement and the penal system: The film is an interview of four German women who tell the story of four young German girls from East Prussia placed into a Soviet labor camp at the end of World War II according to Stalin's decisions about mobilization of Germans for reconstruction works in the USSR.
Where to Invade Next: Documentary films: ''''Where to Invade Next''''' is a 2015 American documentary film written and directed by Michael Moore.
penal system: In Norway: humane prison system, visiting the minimum-security Bastøy Prison and maximum-security Halden Prison, and Norway's response to the 2011 Utøya attacks
No Burqas Behind Bars: '''''No Burqas Behind Bars''''' is a 2012 Swedish feature-length documentary film made by Maryam Ebrahimi and Nima Sarvestani on life in a women's prison in Afghanistan.
Bunso: Documentary films: '''''Bunso''''' (''The Youngest'') is a documentary by Filipino filmmakers Ditsi Carolino and Nana Buxani.
penal system: Three boys, Tony, 13, Diosel, and Bunso, 11, are struggling to survive in a crowded Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, alongside adult rapists and murderers.
A Hard Name: '''''A Hard Name''''' is a 2009 documentary film by Alan Zweig that explores the lives of ex-convicts.


In the film, Zweig interviews seven ex-convicts about their times in prison and their lives on the outside. The men talk about insights they have gained about their lives, including how childhood abuse led to a life of crime. Film subjects include one man who stabbed fellow inmate Clifford Olson 21 times, before Olson committed his serial killings.


Another of the film's subjects was abused as a child while a resident at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. ''A Hard Name'' ends with archival television footage of him performing, playing the guitar and singing for other young residents of the home.
Waseskun: '''''Waseskun''''' is a 2016 documentary film written and directed by Steve Patry about the Waseskun Healing Centre, a Correctional Service of Canada healing lodge run by Canadian Indigenous people for Indigenous inmates, situated in Quebec's Lanaudière region.
P4W: Prison for Women: Documentary films: s a Canadian documentary film,
about law enforcement and the penal system in any country besides the US: The film profiles several female inmates at the Prison for Women of Kingston Penitentiary.
La Corona (film): '''''La Corona''''' is a 2008 short American documentary film about a beauty pageant in a Colombian prison for women, directed by Amanda Micheli. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Death and the Judge: '''''Death and the Judge''''' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Hassan Khademi.
The film narrates the life and career of Nourollah Aziz-Mohammadi, an Iranian criminal judge who has issued more than 4 thousand death sentences during his career.
The film won the AIFIC Award at the Iran's Cinema Verite Film Festival and the Bertha Fund Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
Reza Hosseini points out that the film has its weaknesses, but the appeal of the subject and the stubbornness of the filmmaker make it spectacular.
Salahedin Ghaderi (from Kharazmi University) provides a sociological review of the film and calls it a "good text" for sociological inquiry.
Out of Bounds (2005 film): Documentary films: '''''Out of Bounds''''' (also known as '''''Hors les murs''''') is a 2005 French documentary film directed by Alexandre Leborgne and Pierre Barougier.
law enforcement and the penal system: Founded by the American colonial administration in 1904, The Iwahig prison on the island of Palawan in the Philippines is an open air penal colony covering 38,000 hectares of jungle and coastland.
Life Somewhere Else: '''''Life Somewhere Else''''' () is a 1995 short documentary film directed by Walter Salles. It tells the story of Maria do Socorro Nobre, a Brazilian woman who, while serving a 20-year prison sentence, becomes inspired by the story of Polish artist Frans Krajcberg, and becomes pen pals with him.


Krajcberg himself co-wrote the film with director Walter Salles.
Love Crimes of Kabul: '''''Love Crimes of Kabul''''' is a 2011 documentary film following select cases of inmates at Badam Bagh women's prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, where half are jailed for "moral crimes" such as adultery, premarital sex and running away from home. "If they were good women, they wouldn't be here," says a prison guard at the beginning of the film.
12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary: Documentary films about law enforcement and the penal system: which chronicles efforts to stage an adaptation of Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay ''Twelve Angry Men'' with inmates inside Beirut's Roumieh Prison
in any country besides the US: The Documentary''''' is a 2009 Lebanese documentary film
The Mouth of the Wolf (2009 film): Documentary films: ''''The Mouth of the Wolf''''' (original title: ''La bocca del lupo'') is a 2009 biographical drama/documentary film written and directed by Pietro Marcello.
the penal system: t follows an Italian man named Vincenzo Motta (also known as Enzo) who is serving a long sentence in a Genoa prison.