Death Row Movies

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

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

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

A psychologist interviews a death row inmate to determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.

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

Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six...

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

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison...

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in...

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

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

In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving...

A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.

A disgraced White House chef finds himself many years later working in a maximum-security prison cooking last meals for inmates on death row.

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

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

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

Chuck Toedan hosts the most controversial show on TV: Live or Die, where deathrow inmates compete against each other for a chance to beat the...

A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake"...