List of films about capital punishment

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This page is a list of films about and/or containing capital punishment.

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[edit] American films

Name Year Director/s
The Accusing Finger 1936 Harry Carey, James Hogan
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (The Twilight Zone) 1964 Robert Enrico
Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 Fritz Lang
Billy Budd 1962 Peter Ustinov
Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson
Capital Punishment 1925 James Hogan
Cell 2455, Death Row 1955 Fred F. Sears
The Chamber 1996 James Foley
Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall
Covenant With Death 1967 Lamont Johnson
The Crucible (film) 1996 Nicholas Hytner
Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins
The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich
Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison 1901 Edwin S. Porter
The Execution of Private Slovik 1974 Lamont Johnson
The Executioner's Song 1982 Lawrence Schiller
The Front Page 1931 Lewis Milestone
Fury (1936 film) 1936 Fritz Lang
The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont
Hang 'Em High 1968 Ted Post
Hangmen Also Die 1943 Fritz Lang
His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks
The Hoodlum Priest 1961 Irwin Kershner
I Want to Live! 1958 Robert Wise
If I Had A Million 1932 James Cruze (and 7 other directors)
In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks
Intolerance (film) 1915 D.W. Griffith
Just Cause 1995 Arne Glimcher
Kill Me If You Can (TV movie) 1977 Buzz Kulik
Knock on Any Door 1949 Nicholas Ray
Last Dance 1996 Bruce Beresford
The Last Mile 1932 Samuel Bischoff
The Last Mile 1959 Howard W. Koch
A Letter from Death Row 1998 Marvin Baker, Bret Michaels
The Life of David Gale 2003 Alan Parker
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 The Coen Brothers
Manhattan Melodrama 1934 W. S. Van Dyke
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. 1999 Errol Morris
Monster 2003 Patty Jenkins
Monster's Ball 2001 Marc Forster
My Cousin Vinny 1992 Jonathan Lynn
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story   1992 Peter Levin
The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman
The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson
Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick
A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens
Return to Paradise 1998 Joseph Ruben
Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang
Sommersby 1993 Jon Amiel
The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris
Tom Horn 1980 William Wiard
The Travelling Executioner 1970 Jack Smight
True Crime 1999 Clint Eastwood
True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing-Sing 1932 Michael Curtiz
Two Seconds 1932 Mervyn LeRoy
We Who Are About to Die 1937 Christy Carbanne
Witness to the Execution 1994 Tommy Lee Walace
You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang

[edit] Australian films

Name Year Director/s
Dadah is Death

[edit] British films

Name Year Director/s
Dance With A Stranger 1985 Mike Newell
Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars Von Trier (European co-production)
Daybreak 1946 Compton Bennett
Eight O’Clock Walk 1954 Lance Comfort
Fourteen Days in May 1988 Paul Hamann
Let Him Have It 1991 Peter Medak
The Life of Charles Peace 1905 William Haggar
Mix Me a Person 1962 Leslie Norman
Now Barabbas Was A Robber   1949 Gordon Parry
Pierrepoint 2006 Adrian Shergold
10 Rillington Place 1971 Richard Fleischer
The Quare Fellow 1962 Arthur Driefuss (UK and Republic of Ireland co-production)
They Drive By Night 1939 Arthur Woods
Under Suspicion 1991 Simon Moore
Yield to the Night 1956 J. Lee Thompson

[edit] Films in languages other than English

Name Original name Year Director/s Country
The Battle of Algiers La Battaglia di Algeri 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo France
Day of Wrath Vredens dag 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark
Death By Hanging Koshikei 1968 Nagisa Oshima Japan
Fantômas - In the Shadow of the Guillotine Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine 1913 Louis Feuillade France
The New Land Nybyggarna 1972 Jan Troell Sweden
The Passion of Joan of Arc   La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc   1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer France
The Scapegoat Il Fornatto Di Venezia 1963 Duccio Tessari Italy
A Short Film About Killing Krótki film o zabijaniu 1988 Krzysztof Kieślowski   Poland
Sophie Scholl (UK release title); Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (US release title and literal translation of the original German title) Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage 2005 Marc Rothemund   Germany
Story of Women Une Affaire De Femmes 1988 Claude Chabrol France
Teen diwarein(hindi) [[:Template:]] 2004 Nagesh kuknoor   India
Virumandi(Tamil) The Tough Fighter 2004 Kamal Hassan   India
The Widow of Saint-Pierre La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000 film) 2000 Patrice Leconte France/Canada
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