Serving Life

Serving Life

2011•1h 25m•5.3/10

TV MovieDocumentary

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🎬TMDb

5.3/10(3)

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker, the film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years.

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OWN Oprah Winfrey Network

Language

EN

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Released

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Cast

Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker

Narrator (voice)

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