''The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo'' is a 1999 American
short documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
directed by Simeon Soffer. It was nominated for an
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...
for
Best Documentary Short.
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''The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo''at
Seventh Art Releasing
1999 films
1999 independent films
1999 short documentary films
American short documentary films
American independent films
1990s English-language films
Rodeo in film
Documentary films about incarceration in the United States
1990s American films
English-language short documentary films
English-language independent films
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