The Strike
Directed by Lucas Guilkey and JoeBill Muñoz, 2024
Documentary; 86 minutes
The Strike is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of a generation of men who endured solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, at California’s high-security Pelican Bay prison. Against all odds, the men launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history, in which 30,000 incarcerated people across California prisons sought to abolish indefinite isolation.
Admission is free and open to the public.