A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is interviewed, Johnson himself, his family, the warden, prison guards and other inmates. We also witness the futile attempts by his attorney to save his life.
Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highes...
A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchte...
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a poli...
Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themsel...
A moving account of the experiences of men exonerated after years, and sometimes decades, in prison ...
Documentary about the jurors in a murder trial who handed out the death sentence to the defendant, a...
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
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...
A film about convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran, who became an accomplished artist before he w...
In 2002, serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment for five murders. Gendarme ...
This gripping film tells the dramatic story of three young men falsely accused of rape, and the deva...
This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the Unite...
Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origi...
On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of a...
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to...
Three extraordinary people embark on journeys of recovery, discovery and rebellion and find themselv...
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue w...
The best team never to win the College World Series? It might have been the 1985 Mississippi State B...
Domestic service worker Lera is accused of a crime. In a cell in the premises of a Civil Guard barra...