Production

Arnold Shapiro

Born

1941-02-01 (85)

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

8 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Scared Straight! poster
7.5

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Scared Straight!

1978

Scared Straight! poster
7.5

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Scared Straight!

1978

Heroes of Iwo Jima poster
6.1

This heartrending documentary tells the story behind the most famous war photograph ever taken.

Heroes of Iwo Jima

2001

Scared Straight! Another Story poster
9.0

A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.

Scared Straight! Another Story

1980

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10.0

A follow up to the 1978 documentary. Wherein we take a look at the kids who were sent to a prison and were subjected to the words of the convicts in the prison in hopes of getting them to go straight. We get a look of how they are doing. We also look at some of the convicts. How some of them got out but ended up back in prison.

Scared Straight!: 10 Years Later

1987

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later poster
6.8

Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

1999

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later poster
6.8

Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

1999

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NR

Special following four families who are raising teenagers, and capturing candid, often disturbing situations which reveal the direct connection between parents' behavior and the ways their kids are mirroring or reacting to that behavior.

The Children are Watching

1999