
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
Documentary
7.0
Release Date
January 1, 1999
Duration
30 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It focuses primarily on the inmates experiences in the rodeo. For a lot of those prisoners, the rodeo seems to be the only thing they have to look forward to. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.