We're Alive (1974)
Documentary • 48m
Overview
Made jointly by the Women’s Film Workshop and some of the inmates of the California Institution for Women, this is a moving analysis of why the women are in prison, what’s happening to them, what’s to become of them. It begins and ends with film taken outside the walls, while the rest is videotape transferred to film of the prisoners talking about race, sex and religion, class, economics and drugs. Occasionally statistics are inserted, but generally the women show such a degree of articulacy and radical thought that what they have to say is explanation enough. A remarkably undated combination of political anger and collective tenderness.
Directors: Kathy Levitt & Christine Lesiak & Michie Gleason
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John Ford
Director: John Ford
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: Clarence G. Badger
Director: Clarence G. Badger
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Unofficial Streaming
The complete 35mm is preserved at UCLA
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Unofficial Streaming
The complete 35mm is preserved at UCLA
Director: Frank O'Connor
Director: Frank O'Connor
Director: Louis J. Gasnier
Kino Lorber DVD is prepared from the sole surviving 35mm nitrate print with UCLA
Director: Louis J. Gasnier
Kino Lorber DVD is prepared from the sole surviving 35mm nitrate print with UCLA
Director: Roy William Neill
Director: Roy William Neill
Director: James P. Hogan
Very rough unofficial VHS rip exists online.
UCLA has complete 16mm safety print but no release or restoration yet https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/tk6osu/alma99122723506533
Director: James P. Hogan
Very rough unofficial VHS rip exists online.
UCLA has complete 16mm safety print but no release or restoration yet https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/tk6osu/alma99122723506533
Director: Alfred Santell
Incomplete tinted 35mm nitrate print held at UCLA
Reel 1 and 4 discarded due to damage and reel 6 was missing see https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/tk6osu/alma99349873506533
Director: Alfred Santell
Incomplete tinted 35mm nitrate print held at UCLA
Reel 1 and 4 discarded due to damage and reel 6 was missing see https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/tk6osu/alma99349873506533
Survived partially
UCLA has 4 of 6 reels, missing reel 4 and 5 see https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/tk6osu/alma99304733506533
Survived partially
UCLA has 4 of 6 reels, missing reel 4 and 5 see https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/tk6osu/alma99304733506533
Director: Nick Elliot
UCLA HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnNsO9KFq4
UCLA HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnNsO9KFq4
Director: Nick Elliot
UCLA HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnNsO9KFq4
UCLA HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnNsO9KFq4
More Documentary on Blu-ray
2026 Sony/Columbia 4K Blu-ray
2026 Sony/Columbia 4K Blu-ray
2026 Sony/Columbia 4K Blu-ray
2026 Sony/Columbia 4K Blu-ray
Director: Jean Vigo
Director: Jean Vigo
Directors: Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman
Directors: Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Scorsese
Directors: Robert Flaherty & Frances H. Flaherty
Directors: Robert Flaherty & Frances H. Flaherty
Director: Arthur Dong
Kino Lorber Arthur Dong Collection Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Arthur Dong Collection Blu-ray
Director: Arthur Dong
Kino Lorber Arthur Dong Collection Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Arthur Dong Collection Blu-ray
Director: Erik Nelson
Director: Erik Nelson
Directors: Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
4K Streaming
The Capelight 4K Blu-ray has both German and English audio, defaulting to the former, but only has German subtitles
Directors: Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
4K Streaming
The Capelight 4K Blu-ray has both German and English audio, defaulting to the former, but only has German subtitles
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