Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 2
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 16, 2000
• ASIN: 0767017005
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #637,588 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

THE BIG HOUSE goes behind the bars of America's most infamous prisons. Filled with footage from the cellblocks and interviews with the men and women who live and die there, it is as close as anyone would ever want to come to life on the "inside." Folsom Prison is known to many from the Johnny Cash song. For many of the "incorrigibles" sent there, it was the last home they would ever know?93 prisoners were hanged between 1895 and 1937. Alderson's Women's Prison in West Virginia has housed notables from Billie Holiday to would-be presidential assassin "Squeaky" Fromme. The home of Charles Manson, San Quentin traces its origins back to California's Gold Rush days. Finally, Atlanta Federal Prison has seen a presidential bid run from behind its walls! THE BIG HOUSE is an all-access tour through the corridors and history of America's best-known prisons.