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The Alabama Solution
Directed by
Andrew Jarecki
,
Charlotte Kaufman
R
2025
1h 57m
Documentary
,
Crime
7.8
100%
93%
6.9
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Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of the United States' deadliest prison systems.
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Cast of The Alabama Solution
Robert Earl Council
Self
Melvin Ray
Self
Kay Ivey
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Jarecki
Director / Writer / Producer
Charlotte Kaufman
Director / Writer / Producer / Director Of Photography
Page Marsella
Writer / Editor
Nancy Abraham
Executive Producer
Lisa Heller
Executive Producer
Sara Rodriguez
Executive Producer
Nicholas Kraus
Director Of Photography
Richard Hankin
Supervising Editor
Zachary Stuart-Pontier
Consulting Editor
David Abelson
Additional Editor
Rameen Aminzadeh
Additional Editor
Adam Boese
Assistant Editor
Kevin Carey
Additional Editor
Rob Cole
Assistant Editor
Gabe Murray
Additional Editor
Camilla Hayman
Additional Editor
Mark Batson
Original Music Composer
The Alabama Solution Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
Harrowing to watch but essential.
Decider
John Serba
The Alabama Solution is the year's most essential documentary.
The SS Ben Hecht
Stephen Silver
A daring and infuriating documentary about prison abuse in Alabama, a place where there's not exactly a lot of political will among elected officials to do anything about it.
Movies and Munchies (YouTube)
Chris Joyce
While this may not serve as anything other than a horror show for those outside the US… those of us in this country should pay attention and want true justice upheld because it has the potential to affect every citizen.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Rob Owen
The situation often appears brutal and dire, but "Alabama Solution" delivers more conjecture than proof in many of its allegations, and there's no "gotcha" moment like at the end of the first season of "The Jinx."
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Both eye-opening and infuriating, this riveting documentary exposes systemic failures in the Alabama state prison system through some top-notch investigative journalism.
Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)
Marya E. Gates
It's a harrowing film that takes a cold, hard look at the system
Awards Focus
Matthew Koss
It is nearly impossible to finish this film feeling comfortable. Hope doesn't come easy when the machinery is built to silence you. But The Alabama Solution isn't asking for hope. It's asking for change.
Heaven of Horror
Karina Adelgaard
...comes from an award-winning documentary filmmaker who manages to show the abysmal living conditions for those serving time in an Alabama prison. The runtime is just under two hours long, and I don't think it could have been any shorter.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
Bringing several types of filmmaking, amateur and professional, together for a movie like this makes that message all the more powerful.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The movie, its many strands brilliantly threaded for maximum impact, is also an argument for the necessity of independent inquiry, and for a reassessment of what a "true crime" documentary means when the lion's share of attention goes to sensationalized.
RogerEbert.com
Zachary Lee
This is a project for and by those who have experienced inhumanity firsthand yet refuse to have their voices snuffed out by a corrupt institution.
Nonfics (Substack)
Christopher Campbell
I wish we still lived in a time when documentaries this powerful could make a difference.
Next Best Picture
Lauren LaMagna
"The Alabama Solution" may not provide a definitive answer, but it sparks an undeniable demand for change, making it one of the most urgent and important documentaries of the year.
Movies We Texted About
Sarah Manvel
The important journalism from everyone involved in this film shines a light into the American prison system to show what violence is being done with our tax dollars and in our names.
United Press International
Fred Topel
If incarcerated inmates can make progress in activism from inside prison walls, it suggests even greater things are possible when people with more resources join forces. The documentary illuminating the issue is a major step.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
"The Alabama Solution" will likely play to people who already know about the corruption, brutality, and slave labor that feed our prison system, but it's still important to see the horrors that unfold in this country that so many consider free.
Cinema Daily US
Abe Friedtanzer
The Alabama Solution is a vital, urgent, and disturbing look at a situation that is worse than terrible and demands immediate action.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
One of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I've ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, the movie is a scalding portrait of life on the inside that exerts a grip worthy of a thriller.
The Hollywood Reporter
Daniel Fienberg
The Alabama Solution is difficult to watch, and impossible to watch without escalating anger. There isn't easy catharsis or an easy non-Alabama solution, but it's impossible to deny that something better must be done.
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