The People vs. John Doe

Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for...

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American...

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken...

A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life...

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes,...

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in...

A child murderess is led to her execution.

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