Documentary on Ruth Ellis, a Welsh-born model and actress, who was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. She went to the gallows of London's Holloway prison on July 13, 1955, for the gunshot murder of her lover, David Blakely, on Easter Sunday, April 10, of that same year. She was 28 at the time and was hanged, despite a 50,000-signature petition from the British public for leniency.
Documentary on Ruth Ellis, a Welsh-born model and actress, who was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. She went to the gallows of London's Holloway prison on July 13, 1955, for the gunshot murder of her lover, David Blakely, on Easter Sunday, April 10, of that same year. She was 28 at the time and was hanged, despite a 50,000-signature petition from the British public for leniency.
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
"เอ็มเม็ตต์ ทิลล์" เป็นภาพยนตร์สะเทือนอารมณ์เกี่ยวกับเรื่องจริงในการแสวงหาความยุติธรรมอย่างไม่ลดละของเมมี่ ทิลล์-โมบลีย์ ให้กับเอ็มเม็ตต์ ทิลล์ลูกชายวัย 14 ปีของเธอ ซึ่งโดนรุมประชาทัณฑ์ขณะไปเยี่ยมญาติของเขาในรัฐมิสซิสซิปปี้เมื่อปี 1955 เส้นทางอันปวดร้าวขมขื่นของมามี่ที่แปรเปลี่ยนเป็นการลงมือทำให้เราได้เห็นพลังอันยิ่งใหญ่เป็นสากลของแม่ในการเปลี่ยนแปลงโลก
ฟุตเทจและเรื่องราวจากคนวงในที่ไม่เคยเห็นและได้ยินมาก่อน เผยคดีสุดสะเทือนใจของลูซี่ เลทบี้ พยาบาลทารกแรกเกิดที่มีความผิดฐานทำร้ายทารกจนถึงแก่ความตาย
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.