Execution Movies

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

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...

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the case of a man who became an authority on capital punishment, but was discredited when he got...

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

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

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

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they...

This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro...

1959. Guilty of a double murder, a man is guillotined. The dead man's head rolls into a basket, from where it recounts a tale.

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and...

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

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.

“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...

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

During the American Civil War, a Southerner is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when something unexpected happens.

During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end...

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

A trigger-happy Nationalist fears retribution from the son of a man he executed. To mollify the boy's anger, he takes a drastic step: he keeps...

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