Death Row Movies

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993) is a documentary film about Aileen Wuornos, made by Nick Broomfield. It documents Broomfield's a...

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 to...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 executio...

Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years sin...

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.

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

The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having...

After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses,...

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 in...

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 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 flash...

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

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

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