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After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.

After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.

A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

Angola Prison had the reputation of being the bloodiest, most violent prison in the country, until something changed to give the inmates A New Hope.

Ten years after filming The Farm, Jonathan Stack returns to Angola prison and reconnects with the cast from the original film.

'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.

Møre than 40 filmmakers traveled the globe to witness religious celebrations and interview people from all sorts of backgrounds.

In love, out of luck, and locked up, Val risks everything to find Kandy before she marries another man and he loses her forever. Set amid the heat and moist, mysterious funk of New Orleans and Louisiana State Penitentiary, Sweet Kandy is a tale of two young lovers looking for a chance.

Join Neil on a journey to see what God is trying to teach him through the Experiencing God study. While reflecting on the study with authors Claude King and Henry Blackaby we see the way that this study has influenced others over the years. It's a moving look at what can happen when you decide to meet God where He is already working and join in on that work. See these amazing true stories of life change - how some have gone from darkness and hopelessness, to seeing the light of Christ's love and discovering His will for their lives.

Rita Chiarelli's exploration of Louisiana's Angola Prison, its inmates and the blues music tradition they perform with her.

This documentary examines the issue of whether juveniles--those under 18 years of age--should be executed for crimes of which they are convicted merit the death penalty. Several inmates who are on Death Row for murders they committed when they were juveniles are interviewed.

June 16th, 1995, Jerry Brown killed for a small bag of marijuana. He was sentenced to life in prison and sent to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, America's most infamous and largest maximum-security prison. 5000 prisoners, mostly African Americans, are serving their time there. Most of them won't ever get out. Jerry Brown is the star of a brutal and unique rodeo: the Angola Prison Rodeo. "The Wildest Show in the South" as some call it. The participants are volunteers but are not allowed to train. This spectacular event allows them to make some money and earn a few seconds of fame in front of 10,000 spectators. For Burl Cain, Angola's warden, it is the occasion to make large profits and to develop with impunity his religious programs. By training certain prisoners to become missionaries, he wants to spread religion throughout the prison. Razor Wire Rodeo is the story of Jerry and these thousands of inmates, whose lives have been defined by violence in the poorest neighborhoods. In the arena, the fight against the bull becomes symbolic: it is indeed the fight of men against a crushing legal system.

Stephen travels through the basin of Old Man River, North America's greatest, from the Great Lakes to its Gulf of Mexico delta. Stephen starts in Louisiana, visiting New Orleans, site of Mardi Gras frivolity and superstition, touring the ruins of the Lower Ninth Ward and Louisiana's infamous Angola State Penitentiary. He then travels north along Highway 61, with stops in Natchez, Mississippi (talking with Morgan Freeman, owner of a local blues club), Arkansas (canoeing on the river), Iowa (discussing meditation at the Maharishi International University), St. Louis (talking with some homeless people living in an abandoned warehouse), Elkhart, Indiana (riding in a fire engine) and Detroit (riding with the designer of the latest Cadillac). In Chicago, he tours the South Side with blues legend Buddy Guy and gets roped into helping with a Second City show, with Chicago-style hot dogs after with two of the performers. Then on to Wisconsin for artisanal cheesemaking, a visit to a Hmong market in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and finally a bit of ice-fishing. Meditations about river-love, the restless nature of the American dream and immigration alter with visits to towns and cities in the vast Midwest plains and Minnesota sources. Included are the San Louis homeless, Vedic 'trans-meditational yoga' guru's Iowa commune HQ, second US economic city Chicago, Scandinavian and Hmong communities in the icy north.

It's home to the Big Easy and the Big Muddy but it's Louisiana's big spirit that makes it one of our most prized states.