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 ...

He marries Stella Johnson and together they run a business, providing medicine developed by Stroud. But a few years after, Stroud is transferred to Alcatraz and has to leave his birds behind.

Alcatraz was known for housing some of the most notorious criminals, including Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Robert Franklin Stroud (the "Birdman of Alcatraz").

ALCATRAZ Prison could join The Playboy Mansion and Matchroom HQ as the latest bizarre venue to stage a boxing match.

Incarceration has been explored in many different ways over the decades, ranging from uplifting stories of perseverance in the likes of Shawshank or Birdman of Alcatraz, to bleaker and more brutal ...

The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island ... which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates ...