Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991)
- Directed by
- Alan Raymond
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary takes viewers inside a federal penitentiary to see the daily lives of inmates and staff. It shows the routines, tensions, and harsh realities of prison existence without narration or commentary.
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What happens
Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House is a 1991 documentary film about the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, directed by Alan Raymond. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was shown as part of HBO's America Undercover. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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