Abstract
This article aims to explore the particularities of American movies about Devil’s Island during the 1930’s but also to analyse how this specific interworld war context had a deep impact in the depiction of this penal colony. We refer to the methodological tools of cultural history to look at the United States and France internally and externally, using the movies as axes of interpretation regarding penal colonies, penal systems and old empires, but also to understand how a social imagery of Devil’s Island was slowly created through photos, documentaries, articles, features and memoirs.
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