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San Quentin
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 separat...
San Quentin
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Women of San Quentin
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Duffy of San Quentin
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Inside San Quentin
San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Qu...
Escape from San Quentin
Desmond plays convict Mike Gilbert, who goes on the lam with fellow prisoners Gruber and Graham when he finds out his wife is divorcing him and feels he has nothing to lose. Gruber...
Godot in San Quentin
A documentary made at the set up of a theater production, of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", directed by Jan Jönson, played by prisoners, at San Quentin State Prison in Calif...
Men of San Quentin
A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the prison.
Johnny Cash at San Quentin
On February 24th, 1969, two days before he turned 37, Johnny Cash led his traveling troupe behind the foreboding walls of the California State Penitentiary at San Quentin, long kno...
Squires of San Quentin
Squires of San Quentin is a 1978 American short documentary film produced by J. Gary Mitchell. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film was shot i...
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
Courtesy of The Freedom Archives 1972, 28 min. This extraordinary video is from a 16mm film “work print” made in 1971–1972, and includes interviews with George Jackson, Georgia Ja...
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.
Paul Rodriguez: Live in San Quentin
Comedian Paul Rodriguez brings down the Big House in this live stand-up performance for the inmates of California's San Quentin State Prison. Rodriguez serves up his hilarious comm...
Violent History of San Quentin Prison California
The violent history of San Quentin Prison in California.
John Brown's Body at San Quentin Prison
Members of a racially mixed cast of self-confessed murderers is transformed by acting in a play about slavery and freedom that took three years to mount.
Frames of Freedom: The San Quentin Film Festival Sizzle
“Frames of Freedom: The San Quentin Film Festival Sizzle” is a powerful doc that follows Rahsaan “New York” Thomas and Cori Thomas as they lead the charge in bringing the first-eve...
Waiting for Life
“Twin” and “Happy,” two prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, experience, during their long sentences, an encounter with culture that forever changes their lives. They ar...
Broken Bars
Typical low budget action thriller about an undercover cop forced to infiltrate a tough American jail
Police Story: Gladiator School
Robert Conrad is Officer Stacy, an LAPD cop with an attitude. After busting a prostitute, she files a complaint against him. A week later he shoots her in an apparent frame-up job....
Fast-Walking
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
