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Dutschke is a film based on the life of Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke is a Docudrama and approaches the story in a fictional but also interactive and discursive way. Rudi Dutschke was a German Marxist, sociologist and political activist. Rudi Dutschke…
In our documentation series Hard Times, JosLópez has to face his new reality. JosLópez is still coming to terms with the prison system’s changes in Hard Time. In Hard Time, Joswas once a feared inmate. Now, he is considered an…
In our series Hard Time, Russell Rollf´s tobacco business is struggling. But the opportunist is not so quickly brought down. Russell Rollf, aka Izzy, got caught illegally mending the clothes of other inmates in Hard Time. However, instead of his…
Drugs have found their way inside our documentation series Hard Time. In Hard Time, Micheal Wildes has to spend two more years behind bars. For an addict like Micheal Wildes this poses a temptation he does not want to give…
After 11 years in prison in Hard Time, he never wants to go back. Elliot Crowl will be released in less than a week. He left his alter ego behind and awaited his release. Elliot Crowl can already taste his…
In our documentation series Hard Times, Sean Rockefeller had a difficult time after his release from prison. The registered sex offender looked for ways to escape life in Hard Times, not allowed to live at his mother’s or father’s house.…
In Hard Time, Christopher Timmreck is expecting his family. However, the prison suspects him of having a cell phone. Now he is under investigation in Hard Time. Christopher Timmreck, aka Yankee, is released from solitary confinement after an investigation. He…
Eugene Howard is a newcomer to Earl “Kareem” Smith’s group in Hard Times. When he entered the prison system, Eugene Howard joined a gang. Now he is looking for a way and finds it in religion. In Hard Times, Eugene…
“Randy “”Rock”” Cochran from Hard Time works in the kitchen, and he is always respectful to the authorities. Randy “”Rock”” Cochran knows that life in prison is not easy. He got a life sentence when he was 19. When he…
Earl Smith (“Kareem”) is convicted of murder and must serve life in prison. He robbed a restaurant when he was 22 and killed someone working there. While in prison in Hard Time he turned to the gang-life, which he now…
In our documentation series Hard Time, Anjail Muhammad is sentenced for murder with life without parole. In prison, Anjail Muhammad still is rather provocative. She tries to get around all restrictions there in Hard Time. When an inmate in lockdown…
It is Julie Murphy’s third stay in prison, and she knows how things go. In Hard Times, Julie is a well-known inmate, which is not always a good thing. She is known to be a player. For Julie, living with…
Amy Price was a straight-A student from a loving home, but she ended up in Hard Times. In Hard Times, Amy started doing party drugs. Her crime is theft by taking. She tried to go to rehab but failed. Her…
She has a job in prison, she is a maintanance worker. Rose Richardson is in lockdown because of talking back to her work supervisor in Hard Times. She has been removed from her work. The prison staff is scared that…
Kimberly Taylor is not the easiest inmate from Hard Times. She has trouble with other women in jail, thats why she was in Lockdown for two weeks in Hard Times. She often gets into trouble in jail. But she also…
She walks like one, talks like one, treats you like one. Overall Brandi Cook from Hard Time describes herself as a gentleman. Brandi Cook alias T is a three time veteran of Georgia´s prisons in Hard Time. She is a…
J.B. Davis’s lifestory presented in Hard Time, is shaped by a troubled youth. In Hard Time, he explains that he had a lot of anger in him as a young man. But then he left the streets behind for the…
The new prison inmate in Hard Time, Hassan Hawkins, tries to adapt to his new life behind bars. Unwilling to follow the rules of another prison he was now removed to Smith State prison from our series Hard Time. He…
Antonio German is not the easiest prisoner in our series Hard Time. In Hard Time he is one of the instigators of an uprise of inmates. And even after that he is unapologetic. He also broke a cardinal rule for…
Money and muscle form the power in prison. If you don’t have either, you have to get inventive. New young Hard Times inmate Chaz White arrives at a prison in Ohio. He has many years behind bars ahead of him.…
Hard Time shows that managing female offenders is one of the toughest jobs in corrections. At the Ohio Reformatory for Women the system is tested daily by every kind of inmate. Female inmate Dorie Terell in Hard Time is the…
Over half of his life in prison – this is the story of 60-year-old inmate Oran Brumley who has seen the prison system change serving long and Hard Times locked away. He has come to terms with living behind bars…
Hard Times living behind bars, especially with no access to money from relatives or better-paying prison jobs. Some inmates choose the illegal way of building a paid business, others just steal what they want. This is the story of Hard…
Not all prisoners rely on a reputation of violence and spreading fear in order to get through Hard Times behind bars. Inmate Ronald A. Dudas is more of the quiet sort but doesn’t obey the rules either. With his background…
This is the return of Rodney Ruggles aka. Rebel in Hard Time. As a short timer he regularly serves shorter sentences in prison and therefore is not an unknown face at the Ohio prison. He is not easy to get…
Life in prison is tough, but it seems even harder to get used to life back on the streets after doing time for over 20 years. Former Hard Times inmate David Mahoney knows that no matter what you decide for…
First and hopefully last time in prison for 18 year old new arrival Marquis Hayes in Hard Times. The orientation process is tedious and he has to decide which path he wants to take to get through Hard Times in…
This is the story of China’s brutal dictator Mao Zedong. The special focuses on the end of Mao Zedong and how this laid the foundation for today’s China. They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots in recent…
This is the story of China’s brutal dictator Mao Zedong. The special focuses on how Mao Zedong instrumentalized children and teenagers for his goals. How did it come to this? They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots…
This is the story of China’s brutal dictator Mao Zedong. The special focuses on the story of how Mao Zedong became communist. How did he get there and what were his motives? They are a rogues gallery of the most…
Papa Doc is determined to leave behind a great legacy. New names and entirely new towns are supposed to keep him alive after his death. And indeed the people of Haiti still deal with the consequences of Papa Doc´s dictatorhsip.…
Papa Doc declares himself to be more than human. He is an immaterial being, someone who can communicate with the dead and commant demons. This Special focuses on the infamous Haitain dictator François Duvalier alias Papa Doc. How did he…
