Execution Movies

The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and...

A child murderess is led to her execution.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 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...