Top 11 Prison Riots in Movies
Over the weekend a massive 11-hour riot broke out at a jail in Chino, just outside Los Angeles. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning some 250 prisoners were injured, with over fifty ending up hospitalized. Though nobody was killed, and no prison employees were injured, the violence between black and Latino gangs did some pretty extensive damage to the actual prison building. This is all pretty standard (except for the no deaths part) if you know your prison movie trivia. In case you don’t, we’ve rounded up our Top 11 Prison Riots in Movies.
Fortress 2: Re-Entry (1999)
This awesomely awful-looking movie takes place in a maximum security jail in the future that is orbiting the planet. That is all.
Brute Force (1947)
Burt Lancaster’s eternally wounded self sets off a “human bomb.”
Face Off (1997)
You can’t really tell from the trailer, but part of the good guy’s ploy to become the bad guy involves replacing him in prison, where, inevitably, riots occur.
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
As Dr. Evil explains quite plainly, the prisoners riot (off-screen) so that he and Mini-me can escape.
Reindeer Games (2000)
We never saw this film, with good reason, but the act of identity theft that sets the wheels in motion is facilitated by the opening prison riot.
Brubaker (1980)
Robert Redford loves prison movies (see below), and here he does everything in his power as warden in a rural prison farm to turn the place into a war zone.
The Last Castle (2001)
Despite an awesome cast (James Gandolfini, Delroy Lindo, Robert Redford), this movie about a general sparking a riot at a military prison is really, really bad.
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Mickey and Mallory bust out of jail after starting a riot, which is all the more enjoyable when watched to the tune of Elvis’s “Jailhouse Rock.”
Watchmen (2009)
Nite Owl and Silk Spectre squash a prison riot in record time.
Felon (2008)
It kinda looks like one perpetual riot in this Stephen Dorff-Val Kilmer jailbait movie, but at one point there’s a flashback to the riot that made the latter man infamous.
Runaway Train (1985)
A rabble-rousing prisoner (Jon Voight) earns the warden’s attention after causing a riot, but then escapes onto a train. A train with no brakes!

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