Execution Movies

The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in...

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

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features interview...

“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 striking pic...

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, ar...

Though the drug does not belong to him, importing heroin gets Acai Nakrim locked up in jail which then leads to his death penalty. Before the executio...

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

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 to...

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

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

A compilation of various accidents, disasters, executions, and other acts of mayhem and human feats caught on film.

A true crime noir about the execution of Ruth Snyder

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

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.

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...