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Additional discussion related to this cleanup effort can be found at Talk:List of prison films#Post-rescope content cleanup. ( August 2021 ) This is a list of prison films — films which are primarily concerned with prison life or prison escape or have at least one memorable prison scene.
A prison literacy class for African Americans in New Orleans, 1937. In the United States, prisoners were given religious instruction by chaplains in the early 19th century, and secular prison education programmes were first developed in order to help inmates to read Bibles and other religious texts.
A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape.These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons, such as A Man Escaped, Cool Hand Luke, Midnight Express, Brubaker, Escape from Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, and Kiss of the Spider Woman to actioners like Lock Up and Undisputed, and even comedies satirizing the genre like Stir Crazy ...
Film setting: For films whose story, action, and/or other environment takes place at least part in prison, use Category:Films set in prison. Filming location: If the place where some or all of the film is produced is in a prison, use the city, county, state, or other geographical location category of the prison.
American prison films, a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
Film setting: This category is for films whose story, action, and/or other environment takes place at least part in prison. Filming location: If the place where some or all of the film is produced is in a prison, use the city, county, state, or other geographical location of the prison.
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Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American biographical prison drama film [3] [4] [5] directed and produced by Don Siegel.The screenplay, written by Richard Tuggle, is based on the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce, which recounts the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island.