The Alabama Solution

Name: The Alabama Solution
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 3, 2025
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 90

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HBO | Release Date: October 3, 2025 | TV-MA

Summary: Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 117 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Nov 14, 2025

The Alabama Solution is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I’ve ever seen. Read full review

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Robert Abele

Oct 3, 2025

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, overreported tabloid tales that go down easy in streaming formats. Read full review

The Playlist Marshall Shaffer

Nov 14, 2025

By providing a voice to the voiceless, The Alabama Solution invites audiences into what they successfully argue is nothing less than a new frontier in the ongoing civil rights movement. Institutions may need more time to change, but any viewer of this film should only need two hours to be galvanized into action. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Oct 3, 2025

This isn’t just about crime and punishment, but about a human rights crisis and willful blindness. Bringing several types of filmmaking, amateur and professional, together for a movie like this makes that message all the more powerful. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Zachary Lee

Oct 3, 2025

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. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jan 31, 2025

Many Americans recognise the injustices within the country’s prison system, but the case has rarely been laid out as comprehensively as it is in The Alabama Solution. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Nov 14, 2025

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. Read full review

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