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Works explorer

Maximum security

Australia, 1978
film

This film describes life in the “intractable” section of a maximum security jail based on prisoners’ actual accounts. The “tracs”..

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A Warehouse for bodies

Canada, 1979
Similarity: 76%

Prisoners

Australia, 1976
Similarity: 76%

Prison

Canada, 1975
Similarity: 75%

Cell 16

Canada, 1972
Similarity: 73%

Men without faces

Australia, 1956
Similarity: 72%

No going back

Australia, 1981
Similarity: 72%

Ghosts of the civil dead [DVD] (D)

Australia, 1989
Similarity: 71%

Trapped [Widescreen]

Australia, 2000
Similarity: 69%

Death row

United States, 1979
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A Prison film: still living

United States, 1971
Similarity: 69%

Prisoners of propaganda

Australia, 1987
Similarity: 69%

Penitentiary

Canada, 1951
Similarity: 69%

Prisoner

Australia
Similarity: 69%

The Pentridge experience. Part 1

Australia, 1975
Similarity: 69%

Child welfare

Australia, 1979
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Everynight...everynight

Australia, 1994
Similarity: 69%

The Prisoner

Australia, 2001
Similarity: 69%

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Australia, 1987
Similarity: 69%
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