Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origin, and can be perceived to be as absurd as the punishment it accompanies. Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström's film “The Last Supper” focuses on this discrepancy between historical “meaning” and contemporary use of a tradition that has lost its connection with the past. The main character is the former death row chef Brian Price, who reconstructs one of the 200 final meals that he prepared during his time as inmate in Huntsville State Prison, Texas.

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themsel...
Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the f...

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convi...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a poli...
This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by...

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the seria...
Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillesp...

A film about convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran, who became an accomplished artist before he w...

Depicts the case of religious persecution suffered by the Christian Pakistani Asia Bibi (Aasiya Nore...

In September 2021, France will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty....

Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the gui...

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of a...

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in ...

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who ...

A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his la...

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue w...

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been a...

Three extraordinary people embark on journeys of recovery, discovery and rebellion and find themselv...