Execution Movies

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

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...

A documentary on the executions that took place during and after the Finnish civil war in 1918.

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

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

The Guillotine examines the fascinating and bizarre history of the "national razor" that started out strictly for execution and then became a source...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

During World War One, a British Army corporal tries to save his young friend from a terrible injustice.

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

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

“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 soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the...

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

About Jonas Falk and his stepfather Anders Frid who are both tired of living in poor conditions. They jointly committed a robbery against a post...