The Alabama Solution
First screened in December 2025

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Directors: Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman. Documentary about the particularly cruel and inaccessible prisons of Alabama and their inmates' attempts at pushing back and seeking justice. Screenplay: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, and Page Marsella.

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Photo © 2025 HBO Documentary Films

In Brief: Continues to add bracing dimensions and take surprising turns even while charting a grimly inevitable course.

VOR: ⑤  Prison documentaries abound but few delve so far into interlocking predicaments and concentric contexts, much less from inmates' POVs.

Grade: A–

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