Birdman of Alcatraz is not really a prison picture in the traditional and accepted sense of the term. Birdman reverses the formula and brings a new breadth and depth to the form. In telling, with ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

He was arguably the most famous prisoner ever housed at Alcatraz, the federal prison perched high on an island off the coast of San Francisco. Meet Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman of Alcatraz. But some ...

Sentenced to life in solitary confinement after killing a prison guard, despondent inmate Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) combats loneliness and tedium by nursing an ailing bird back to health. Stroud ...