"They don't want the public to see what's really going on on the inside..." HBO Max has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled The Alabama Solution, an extraordinary inside look at ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A new documentary that uses video footage from inmates inside the Alabama Department of Corrections will be premiering on HBO Max in a few weeks. “The Alabama Solution,” a ...

*Director Andrew Jarecki, known for “The Jinx,” takes audiences deep into the walls of Alabama’s prisons in his latest documentary, “The Alabama Solution,” currently streaming on HBO and nominated for ...

A new HBO documentary airing Friday pulls back the curtain on one of the country's most controversial prison systems, and it doesn't hold back. "The Alabama Solution," from directors Andrew Jarecki ...

Gone are the days when the latest Michael Moore exposé — Sicko or Fahrenheit 9/11 — could fill Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas. This year’s five Oscar-nominated documentaries didn’t even show up in local ...

The Alabama Solution first begins in 2019, when Jarecki and Kaufman were invited by a Black chaplain to film a revival inside one of the prisons. That was cut short after guards caught wind of prison ...

Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman tell IndieWire about the collaboration and investigative reporting that made their new documentary possible. It’s a maddening thing, when you can sense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama walked the red carpet on Hollywood’s biggest night but did not bring home the gold. “The Alabama Solution,” the critically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Friday, March 6, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Alabama Solution” offers rare, unfiltered access inside Alabama ...

When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic drama but the tragedy repeated daily inside Alabama’s overcrowded prisons.