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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