Execution Movies

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very...

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His final wish before dying can only be granted by those standing before him: male soldiers.

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

This documentary film essay analyses controversial police procedures in Germany in autumn 1974, when in a number of the police interventions suspects...

In 2019, the multi-awarded filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani (My Stolen Revolution, Prostitution Behind the Veil) filmed the Iranian journalist...

How do you solve the problems of prison overcrowding, whilst also relieving the suffering of the families of the victims?

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced...

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead...

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they...

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.

A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.

Four Chinese germ warfare scientists are kidnapped by a Japanese organisation.

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his...

Two professional executioners accidentally find love in a small factory town.

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.

After a slave uprising, ten Black mistresses of a white landowner capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth. A trial...

A story of two men, fighting over their love for the same woman.

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.