East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison-the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system-is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program ...

Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Bessemer, Ala., that houses the worst offenders in America’s direst state prison system, does not seem a likely venue for a Buddhist ...

A prison in Alabama is turning to an ancient tradition to quell violence and help inmates cope with life behind bars. It’s called Vipassana meditation. The new film Dhamma Brothers chronicles the ...

What happens when you put a group of maximum-security prison inmates through the rigors of a 10-day Buddhism boot camp? This is the intriguing premise of The Dhamma Brothers, a slow-moving documentary ...

Filmmakers Jenny Phillips, Andrew Kukura, and Anne Marie Stein will be at the Brattle Theatre, in Cambridge, Monday for a screening of their 2008 documentary, “The Dhamma Brothers.” The film is about ...

"The Dhamma Brothers" looks at 36 hardened criminals, many of them murderers, who participate in an intensive, 10-day Buddhist meditation course taught by two Australians in an Alabama maximum ...

Is The Dhamma Brothers on Netflix? No, The Dhamma Brothers is not currently available on Netflix. You can stream it on OVID instead. Can I watch The Dhamma Brothers for free? The Dhamma Brothers is ...

Representing the sort of truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale that that seems rife for dramatization, this documentary relates the unlikely tale of a program at an Alabama maximum-security prison in ...

An example of advocacy filmmaking at its most inspired, this 2007 video goes inside a violent maximum-security prison to document a rigorous ten-day Vipassana Buddhist meditation program undertaken by ...