Execution Movies

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...

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

In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.

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...

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...

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

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

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

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...

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

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries...

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

Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and...

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...

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...

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

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

Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his...

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

A man awaits his execution by firing squad. His final wish before dying can only be granted by those standing before him: male soldiers.