It's Criminal Women Discuss Privilege, Poverty, and Injustice in America
Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice. IT'S CRIMINAL highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break down barriers and learn to speak to each other.
Winner of Audience Choice for Best International Documentary at the Monterey International Film Festival. Official Selection at the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival.
"Thoughtful and authentic." - Peter Biello, NHPR
"It's Criminal is filmmaker Signe Taylor's moving and arresting portrait of incarcerated women, privileged Dartmouth students, and what happens when they come together to write and stage a play." - Susan B. Apel, Daily UV
Running Time
78 mins
Year
2017
Kanopy ID
6059730
Filmmakers
Languages
Subjects
Show More
Related videos
Prison State - The Cycle of Incarceration in America
With this intimate, graphic film, award-winning director Dan Edge follows four residents of a housing project in Louisville, Ky., as they cycle in and out of the state's jails and prisons. More than two years in the making, the program uses deep access to the Louisville jail to offer raw…
Mothers of Bedford - Women in Prison
Women are the fastest-growing U.S. prison population today. Eighty percent are mothers of school-age children. Jenifer McShane's absorbing documentary gives human dimensions to these rarely reported statistics, taking us inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison north of New York City.
Shot over four years, MOTHERS OF BEDFORD…
The Grey Area - Feminism Behind Bars
An intimate look at women's issues in the criminal justice system and the unique experience of studying feminism behind bars. Through a series of captivating class discussions, headed by students from Grinnell College, a small group of female inmates at a maximum women's security prison in Mitchellville, Iowa, share their…
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes - An Examination of the American Prison System
An essential documentary, Brett Story's incisive, investigative and wide-ranging THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES is an examination of the prison and its place - social, economic and psychological - in American society.
Filmmaker Brett Story excavates the often-unseen links and connections that prisons - and our system of mass incarceration…
Milwaukee 53206 - America's Mass Incarceration Crisis
The United States has the most prisoners of any nation in the world both in raw numbers and by percentage of the population. These numbers are further compounded within Milwaukee's mostly African-American 53206 zip code, where 62% of adult men have spent time in prison, making this America's most incarcerated…
The Short Films of Elizabeth Lo - Short Documentaries on America's Overlooked Communities
A remarkable talent in the documentary arena, Elizabeth Lo's moving films highlight American societies' overlooked communities as they navigate the increasing states of inequality. Often forgotten, or even subjugated, by official institutions, Lo's sharp eye captures subjects young and old across the social spectrum, their communities, and the often makeshift…
Anywhere But Here - Stories of African-American Prisoners
Learn from the lives and experiences of 13 African-American men incarcerated at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in Charlottesville, Virginia. They all have aspirations, hopes and dreams. They love, laugh, learn, miss their families, are regretful for the things they've done, wish they had completed their education, and would much rather…
Cruel and Unusual - Black Panthers Fighting for Justice in Prison
This is the story of the Angola Three, three remarkable men - Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox - who as members of the Black Panther Party have been fighting for justice since the early 1970s.
For decades left forgotten in the depths of America's bloodiest prison, between them…
The Released - The Cyclical Incarceration of Ex-Cons with Mental Illnesses
A rare and intimate look into the lives of mentally ill offenders struggling to make it on the outside. This year alone, hundreds of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illnesses will be released into communities across America. Within 18 months, nearly two-thirds will be re-arrested.
THE RELEASED is an…
The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System
You're more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. THE SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON explores the current state of the US prison system, focusing on the experiences of two wrongly convicted men, Reggie Cole and Bruce Lisker.
Featuring gripping commentary from former…
Starting Point - A Woman's Journey Through the Criminal Justice and Healthcare Systems
A fascinating documentary that looks at a pilot program in which female prisoners work at a nursing home for the elderly and disabled while serving out their sentences.
STARTING POINT follows a young woman, Anita, who at the age of 19 was incarcerated for murder. Nine years later, as she…
Concrete, Steel & Paint - A Film About Crime, Restoration and Healing
When men in a state prison join with victims of crime to create a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. Finding consensus is not easy - but as the participants move through the creative process, mistrust gives way to surprising moments of human contact and…
