Execution Movies

Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave...

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

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...

Irishman Vincent Coke is facing execution on the electric chair after a lifetime of adventures, including smuggling rich Cubans from Cuba to the USA....

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

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...

A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.

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

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...

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

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

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...

A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution

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

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....

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

A true crime noir about the execution of Ruth Snyder

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...

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