A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the prison.
A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the prison.
1942-05-15
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THE GREATEST PRISON DRAMA EVER FILMED!
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
The grim news made international headlines: On August 21, 1971, prison authorities discovered a gun on famed Soledad Brother author, activist and San Quentin inmate George Jackson. A shootout ensued, killing Jackson, two other inmates and three guards, and wounding three more officers. Authorities asserted that only lawyer Stephen Bingham could have smuggled the weapon into the prison. Fearing that a conviction for abetting the guards’ deaths would lead to his own murder, the attorney fled, beginning a long, strange odyssey of pseudonymous exile. Strange indeed for the Yale-graduate scion of politically prominent New England elites.
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Johnny Cash at San Quentin was recorded live at San Quentin State Prison on February 24, 1969 and released as an album onJune 16 of that same year. The concert was filmed by Granada Television. Songs performed include Wreck of the Old 97 , I Walk the Line, San Quentin and A Boy Named Sue.
A famous comedian will do everything in his power to rescue his wife from a trafficking ring that kidnaps chubby women for a peculiar Arab sheik.
The Hunting follows police officers as they engage in a cross-border pursuit to arrest and repatriate criminals that have fled overseas. "Operation Fox Hunt" is a special operation launched by China's Ministry of Public Security to apprehend fugitives suspected of committing financial crime. Based on true events.
A group of social media influencers launch a new underground app by throwing the biggest party of the year, unaware that they're being stalked by a sadistic serial killer, hell-bent on revenge.
Erika has cancer and wants to die with dignity. Ruedi, her husband, does not want to live without her, so they decide to depart this world together. Everything is ready: someone is going to help them, but Ruedi suddenly has doubts. A reflection on “assisted suicide”, recounted in a tragicomic vein.
Lala Kedarnath is blessed with 4 sisters. But his only worry is to find suitable grooms for each of them, as only then can he marry his childhood love. To what lengths will he go to succeed?
During the Rosariazo of 1969, two young people, a university activist and theater student and a freelance photographer and cameraman for a TV channel, fall in love.
The second volume of eros suspense depicting a terrible living hell that unfolds in a secret cell that does not officially exist. A giant women's prison built in the basement of Tokyo. There, the drug G-Men Saki, who got the information that illegal drugs are being manufactured, begins a dangerous undercover investigation.