Execution Movies

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

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...

“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...

Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is condemned to death by Captain Nestares after an absurd interrogation that serves to make it clear to the...

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

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.

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

A child murderess is led to her execution.

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...