Movies: Execution

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row....

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to f...

The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and Zosia, are ordered to blow up a railway bridge during a military transport crossing. The task is completed, b...

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

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy......

When a young man is executed for committing murder, he leaves behind a curse letter, promising vengeance for all those connected to his unfair trial....

On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, ...

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

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

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 eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preced...

A true crime noir about the execution of Ruth Snyder...

Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is condemned to death by Captain Nestares after an absurd interrogation that serves to make it clear to the people that the Spanish Civil War is a war of ideas, and that there is no place for individuals like Lorca ...

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce....

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

The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmohammadi. He served as a criminal judge for 45 years and issued about 4500 death sentences; a record in not only Iran, but also the world. This documenta...

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

A by-the-books mob execution is thrown off-kilter when the would-be murderers learn that the man they're killing is Jewish, not Catholic....

We came to the end of the road. We told you the story of the establishment of a democracy throughout 9 episodes... We witnessed the collapse of a one-party regime. We witnessed the disappearance of the national chiefdom. Together we experienced the h...

A man is executed, and then wakes up....

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