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.
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Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The ga...
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a poli...
Jeffrey Ferguson has been on death row for 26 years. Now he has just one hour left before he is put ...
Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highes...
In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convi...
The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmoha...
Documentary about the jurors in a murder trial who handed out the death sentence to the defendant, a...
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the seria...
Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the f...
This documentary explores two horrific stories. With haunting interviews with the killers, plus emot...
This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by...
Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themsel...
Three extraordinary people embark on journeys of recovery, discovery and rebellion and find themselv...
Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillesp...
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue w...
A film about convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran, who became an accomplished artist before he w...
A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his la...
In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who ...
Look into the personal lives of women currently awaiting execution on Death Row. Though each woman i...