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1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 min.) |
| Summary |
There are three things Angola will do to a man. Number one: it will bring you to the crossroads of a turning point. Number two: it will harden you. Number three: it will kill you. So tells Eugene Tannehill, inmate of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the United States. With six complexes on over 18,000 acres and known as the Farm, it holds approximately 5,000 inmates, roughly 85% of whom will die there. Shot over the course of three years, the film follows six men sentenced to life imprisonment. With Wilbert Rideau, the best-known inmate and now a respected journalist, and Warden Burl Cain as our guides through the cells, dormitories, hospital, cemetery, and work fields, we are offered an eye-opening tour of one of the most infamous prisons in America. Prison life at Angola as seen through the subtle revelations of inhabitants who may never experience freedom again bears an uncanny resemblance to plantation life |
| Analysis |
Documentary-style films |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Cinematographers, Samuel Henriques, Bob Perrin ; editors, Mona Davis and Mary Manhardt ; music, Curtis Lundy |
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Narrator, Bernard Addison |
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Features interviews with warden Burl Cain, and inmates George Crawford, Wilbert Rideau, Vincent Simmons, Eugene 'Bishop' Tannehill, Logan 'Bones' Theriot |
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Closed-captioned |
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Emmy Award, 1999: Outstanding achievement in non-fiction programming, cinematography and picture editing, and many other awards |
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Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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| SUBJECT |
Louisiana State Penitentiary. fast (OCoLC)fst00584749 |
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Inmates of institutions -- Louisiana
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Prisoners -- Louisiana -- Attitudes
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Prisoners -- Interviews
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Human rights.
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Human Rights
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Prisoners -- Attitudes.
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Prisoners.
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Inmates of institutions.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Human rights.
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Louisiana.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Nonfiction films.
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Interviews.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Streaming video
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Slack, Jonathan, film director, film producer.
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Garbus, Liz, film director, film producer.
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Rideau, Wilbert, film director.
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Addison, Bernard K., 1963- narrator.
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Henriques, Sam, cinematographer.
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Perrin, Bob (Videographer), cinematographer.
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Davis, Mona, film editor
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Manhardt, Mary, film editor.
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Lundy, Curtis, composer.
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Cain, Burl, interviewee.
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Crawford, George (Inmate), interviewee
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Simmons, Vincent, interviewee
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Tannehill, Eugene, interviewee
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Theriot, Logan, interviewee
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Gabriel Films, production company.
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Kanopy (Firm), distributor.
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Seventh Art Releasing Exclusive, producer
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