Widely known scientific discovery source, National Geographic, in its 2011 documentary, Russia’s Toughest Prisons, investigates three maximum security prisons: Black Dolphin, Siberian Prison Camp 17, and Vladimir Prison. Writer Anna Rodzinski evokes a sense of fear by examining the treatment and inhumanity of criminals in three of the most severe prisons in Russia. She creates a cold and fearful tone while simulating horror through pathos in order to make her viewers understand the intensity of security in these prisons and the day to day routines of prisoners. Rodzinski begins the documentary with a dreary day in a bleak prison in Russia. She uses the setting to set the frigid tone from the beginning. Throughout the film, the setting and
