Prison Farm - in Fiction

In Fiction

Movies featuring prison farms and forced prison labor:

  • Prison Farm (1938)
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) scenes of Scarlett O'Hara's leased convicts at work in her lumber mills
  • City Without Men (1943)
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  • Scarecrow (movie) (1973)
  • Buckstone County Prison (1978)
  • They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
  • Brubaker (1980)
  • Life (1999)
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • Civil Brand (2002)

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