Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "prisoner-revolt"

1. The Experiment (2001)

R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller

7.7

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X

59 Metascore

For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring

Votes: 96,228 | Gross: $0.14M

2. The Last Castle (2001)

R | 131 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

6.9

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X

43 Metascore

A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.

Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Burton

Votes: 85,471 | Gross: $18.21M

3. The Experiment (2010)

R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

6.4

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X

26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

Director: Paul T. Scheuring | Stars: Adrien Brody, Cam Gigandet, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace

Votes: 57,296

4. The Grey Zone (2001)

R | 108 min | Drama, History, War

7.0

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X

58 Metascore

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.

Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg

Votes: 11,474 | Gross: $0.52M

5. Flash Gordon (1936)

Passed | 245 min | Action, Adventure, Family

7.0

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.

Directors: Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson

Votes: 2,668

6. Against the Wall (1994 TV Movie)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, History

6.7

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 3,302

7. Attica (1980 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

6.4

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X

The true story of the events leading up to and during the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility riot and the aftermath.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 541

8. The Emperor Jones (1933)

Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Music

6.4

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Directors: Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille | Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington

Votes: 1,264

9. Attica (1974)

80 min | Documentary, Crime, History

7.8

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X

In 1971, inmates at Attica State Prison seized control of D-yard and took 35 hostages after peaceful efforts for reforms failed. Attica investigates the rebellion and its bloody suppression, revealing institutionalized injustices, sanctioned dishonesty, and abuses of power.

Director: Cinda Firestone | Stars: John Andrini, Herman Badillo, L.D. Barkley, Roger Champen

Votes: 205

10. Why? (1971)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

7.5

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X

The surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.

Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Lino Banfi, Andrea Aureli

Votes: 1,019

11. Ghosts of Attica (2001)

90 min | Documentary

6.6

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X

Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.

Director: Brad Lichtenstein | Star: Susan Sarandon

Votes: 57

12. SeaQuest 2032 (1993–1996)
Episode: Daggers (1994)

TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Family

6.9

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X

The crew of the the newly rebuilt SeaQuest must deal with a hostage crisis at a UEO prison colony, where genetically engineered soldiers have risen up against their captors.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Roy Scheider, Jonathan Brandis, Don Franklin, Rosalind Allen

Votes: 140

13. War Stories with Mark Felton (2019– )
Episode: Auschwitz - The 1944 Revolt (2021)

28 min | Documentary

Rate this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X

The Auschwitz Birkenau was designed an built to perform mass executions. But not all prisoners were immediately slated for death. Many served as slave labor in the munitions camps nearby. ... See full summary »

Star: Mark Felton