Execution Movies

Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his...

For the first time, some of Vidkun Quisling's closest followers as well as his opponents come forward and describe their impressions of the Norwegian...

This movie deals with a television network hoping to draw the biggest ratings ever while televising an execution live into the home of every American...

A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.

A man is executed, and then wakes up.

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

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...

In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow...

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

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

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sonny and Dub once shared a cell. Now Sonny is a free man, but Dub is on death row and sentenced to be executed in a matter of days. As Sonny comes...

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...