Death Penalty Movies

Three extraordinary people embark on journeys of recovery, discovery and rebellion and find themselves centre stage in the biggest capital punishment...

Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the...

In a dystopian future, a group of murderers facing the death penalty are forced to participate in a game show where they must survive being hunted...

Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as...

A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is...

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others...

A portrait of cabinet intrigues, the false aspirations of the party elite and the grinding reality of the 1960s, or "our little stability." Robert...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the...

Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The gay Radio 1 DJ finds out what it's like to live in...

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...

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

Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that...

After the universal abolition of the death penalty, an executioner is assailed by murderous impulses. He then discovers that against all...

Documentary about the jurors in a murder trial who handed out the death sentence to the defendant, and how their attitudes have changed 20+ years...

Investigates the issue of capital punishment by focusing on six death row inmates and the circumstances of the 13 murders they committed...

Approaching Rudi's execution (Mirna's Husband), Mirna was asked to come to the prison with a Lasagna. Her husband wishes to enjoy the Lasagna with...

This documentary explores two horrific stories. With haunting interviews with the killers, plus emotional exchanges with the daughters.

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his...