"For political prisoner George Jackson, revolution was not a choice... it was a necessity"01 August 2007Drama116 mins
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a $70 gas station robbery crime in 1960. He was 18 years of age when the sentence of one year-to-life was handed down to him.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together.
Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners.
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Inmate activist George Lester Jackson's (CSI's Gary Dourdan) short life became a flashpoint for revolution igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin's history.
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Black Augustbased on the true story of George Jackson revolutionary prison activist Field Marshall General of The Black Panther Party and founder of the ...
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Black August
The movie covers the last 14 months of George Jackson's life as well as the conditions in California's prison industrial complex. George Jackson would spend 11 ...
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Inmate activist George Lester Jackson's (CSI's Gary Dourdan) short life became a flashpoint for revolution igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin's history.
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