Three extraordinary people embark on journeys of recovery, discovery and rebellion and find themselves centre stage in the biggest capital punishment crisis in modern memory. The Penalty unearths an America where grieving families, botched executions and wrongful convictions force us to question what we think we know about the death penalty.

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...

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 camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his la...
Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origi...

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

Procedure 769 is the document that lays down how a prisoner is to be executed. For the first time in...

The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmoha...

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end wi...

Documentary about the jurors in a murder trial who handed out the death sentence to the defendant, a...

This documentary explores two horrific stories. With haunting interviews with the killers, plus emot...