Movies: Execution

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

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

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

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 the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases....

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

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr...

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 office. The robbery is successful in the sense that they came across a large sum of money, but the fact t...

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

After a slave uprising, 10 black mistresses of a white landowner decide to capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth. A trial to decide his fate ensues....

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

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

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

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 death on September 22, 1995. Panetti has an extensive history of mental illness, including schizoph...

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....

Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features interviews with prisoners, guards, officials, lawyers and victims' family members....

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

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 to visit Dub one last time, Dub has one last dying request for Sonny....

Irishman Vincent Coke is facing execution on the electric chair after a lifetime of adventures, including smuggling rich Cubans from Cuba to the USA. While rebelling against the system, he finds an unexpected lifeline offered to him by the very syste...

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 committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Mu...