Death Row Movies

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row.

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is...

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor....

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...

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and...

Valerie's prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam, an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage...

The film is based on true events, about the imminent execution of the death row inmates Zheng Ligun in the escort on the way to a sudden earthquake,...

A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of...

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison...

Geraldo Rivera investigates allegations of a widespread Satanic underground in the United States.

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true...

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning...

John Gacy was a notorious serial killer who was on death row for 14 years. After lethal injection was administered, it took him far too long to...

The story of the Filipina domestic helper who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid is chronicled in a film that operates on...