The Farm


900 Women
78% of incarcerated women (nationwide) are mothers. This film follows 3 inmates at St. Gabriel Women's Prison, Louisiana's only maximum security correctional institute for women. (2000)

Set in America's infamous maximum security prison, THE FARM tells an extraordinary story about life and death in prison. (1997)

- Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance -
- Academy Award Nominee -

Shadows of Doubt


Wildest Show in the South: Angola Prison Rodeo

 Following the success of THE FARM, we recieved letters from throughout the world about the Vincent Simmons parole board scene. SHADOWS OF DOUBT weaves together a complicated story or rape, survival, incarceration and healing. (1999)

October brings rodeo season to Angola State Penitentiary. Six thousand plus gather at the prison to watch the inmate cowboys risk their lives in some of the most dangerous and bizarre rodeo events in the nation. (1999)

- Winner "Best Documentary Short" at Sundance -
- Academy Award Nominee -


Law & Order: The Real Thing
While slick television dramas romanticize and demonize, our 3 hour documentary series, Law and Order: The Real Thing, provides an opportunity to raise awareness, educate the average citizen and inspire a more engaged citizenry. (1999)


New York Justice

New York City is held together by a constantly renovating set of laws and rules that guide us through an otherwise chaotic urban environment. This 5 part series delves into the stories of the people who fill this city. (2000)

AFTER 9/11: REBUILDING LIVES follows six people whose lives were shattered on a seemingly beautiful September morning and who now face the extraordinary task of putting the pieces back together.


After 9/11: Rebuilding Lives

 Thd job of rodeo clown has evolved from a job, into a sport. We followed Rob Smets back into the ring after his second broken neck.

The Kamikaze Kid

A Chance to Grow
This film explores the impact of newborn intensive care on several families, revealing the inspiring capacity of ordinary individuals to adapt to crises with extraordinary grace and courage.

Prison Rape
This documentary takes the viewer to the heart of the prison rape problem, to meet the victims and the perpetrators, the indifferent officials as well as the isolated reformist administrators. Viewers are not only exposed to the inside of prisons where rape is rampant but also to the houses of incarceration where it has been drastically reduced.

Worlds Most Dangerous Places

Body Piercing

The world's most famous adventurer, Robert Young Pelton, takes us straight into the dark heart of the world's hot spots, war zones, terrorist dens and unforgiving regions showing us how to travel, explore, survive and come back alive.

Body Piercing is an in-depth look at the practice of piercing the body and its meanings to different people around the world. The film takes us from the fashionable, youth-oriented body piercing fad found in the US to the most remote parts of
Africa and South Asia, where piercing the body represents such things as religious devotion and tribal identity.

 

Inshallah: Diary Of An Afghan Woman

Casino Diaries
 Since 1993, when she founded the U.S. based aid organization Help the Afghan Children, Suraya Sadeed has led eighteen relief missions to her homeland, smuggling food and supplies through Taliban-held territory and setting up often clandestine schools and medical clinics.
Casino Diaries is a series for The Discovery Channel that follows the lives of big players in the casinos of Las Vegas.

Justifiable Homicide

Locked Up
Locked Up follows several inmates at Dixon Correctional Institute (DCI) in Louisiana as they deal with their crime, doing serious time and getting out. From burglary to murder, watch as inmates deal with their emotions while accepting their crimes, and as they face the parole board.
Justifiable Homicide follows the story of Margarita Rosario, founder of Parents Against Police Brutality, as she challenges the NYPD to justify the brutal murders of her son and nephew, who were killed by two detectives in The Bronx.

Big Easy Justice

Prison Medicine
Medicine Behind Bars follows inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, David Wade/Fort Wade Correctional Facilitity, and Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW). New Orleans, home to Mardi Gras and the French Quarter, great music and exotic foods. As well as itÕs many pleasures, this is a city plagued by drugs, gang wars and an ever increasing number of homicides. Hampered by the communityÕs distrust of the criminal justice system, this is a place where putting murderers behind bars can be a treacherous task.

Damned in the USA

Fight to the Max
 Fight to the Max is a feature length documentary that takes the audience inside the brutal world of prison boxing. At the center of the film is Clifford "The Black Rhino" Ettienne, a former inmate of Angola State Penitentiary, who now fights professionally and is considered a contender for the heavyweight crown.
Damned In The USA focuses on the censorship controversy in America involving pornography, art, and blasphemy. (Directed by Paul Yule)


Scientology

 This film explores the world of Scientology, from it's celebrity advocates to it's many scandals.


Secrets of a Serial Killer

The story of Herb Baumeister, who committed at least seven murders, buried the bodies 15 feet from his back door, and kept his secret from wife and friends.


Sick Humor


Guns In America

 Guns In America is an hour long program about explores America’s love affair with guns. Part of a five part series, the Gabriel Films was asked to present the side that supports the second Amendment in an effort to find common ground in a polarized nation where one side seeing guns as a symbol of violence, and the other as a bastion of individual freedom and defense.

Sick Humor is a pithy, fast paced foray into the world of offensive humor. Jokes on all topics, popular and taboo, crawl out of the woodwork
in offices, homes and streets, proving just how ubiquitous this type of humor is. Over three acts and 92 jokes, the program transcends the gratuitous, offering insight into the human and societal causes of sick humor.
Co-Production with VixPix Films


Liberia an Uncivil War

“Liberia, a nation burdened by its past. America, a nation with no memory at all”

Winner of the Special Jury Award at IDFA
Winner of the IDA 'Courage Under Fire Award'
Emmy Award Nominee

Only In America

 Offering a fresh perspective on America as seen from the inside, Charlie LeDuff of The New York Times takes viewers on an eye-opening journey across the country as he reports on the nation's varied subcultures. The 10-part series airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Stanley Tookie Williams

Coming soon…a story of redemption, human transformation and the power to change history. The grassroots movement to save Stanley "Tookie" Williams awaited a leader. Snoop Dogg stepped forward, sharing the legacy of his mentor with the world and the becoming the voice of the movement to 'SAVE TOOKIE.'

Youth Incarceration

 Coming soon...A documentary about the oft-misunderstood stories of street life and incarceration that are played out in both our popular and civic culture. Spike TV commissioned the documentary last year to feature stories of youth who struggle within the cycle of street life, incarceration and probation.