Executions – 1995 Documentary (Watch Full Length Feature Film)
Watch this full feature documentary titled Executions which was filmed in 1995 and delivers exactly what its title suggests – videos of executions. The documentary offers an objective look at death penalty and state sponsored killing throughout different countries around the world. The documentary is divided into subchapters offering specific look into various execution methods and focuses a lot on humane killing.
I really liked one of the opening paragraphs in the documentary, which could be used for Best Gore as well, given number of threats I get from people who disregarded warnings, proceeded to watch the videos and found them much more difficult to handle than they had thought. Offended and upset, they sought revenge in threatening to shut the site down. The opening paragraph from Executions documentary says it best:
This film is a legacy of those executed. Images of their death are used to educate the living. To suppress such images on the grounds of taste is the ultimate indecency.
The chapters covered by the documentary include:
Introduction to execution, genocide and other atrocities throughout the history of mankind, including the introduction of guillotine, a means of humane execution
Beheading
Stoning
Shooting
Chemical Killing (Gas Chambers, Lethal Injection)
Electrocution
Guillotining
The documentary contains footage of many executions that took place throughout 20th century all over the world. It holds nothing back and depicts capital punishment for what it is. The scenes contained within the documentary include among others:
The Killing of a Policeman by Stoning in Haiti, October 2, 1986
The Killing of Linwood Briley, Virginia, October 12, 1984
Mass, Ritualized Beheadings in China
Beheadings of Marauders in China
Stoning to Death of South African Woman, Sebokeng, South Africa, 1991
Execution of Jews in Nazi Concentration Camps
The Killing of Chinese Citizen in Manchuria, 1930’s
Gas Chamber Killing of Robert Alton Harris, California, April 1992
Execution of Czolgosz, With Panorama of Auburn Prison (Thomas A. Edison Movie, 1901, H10605)
Life, Love, Death – a movie by Claude Lelouch, 1968
Guatemala Firing Squad Executions, 1955
The Killing of Villagers by Decapitation after “Disappearance” in El Salvador, 1984
The Killing of Vietkong Soldier, Vietnam, October 15, 1964
Shanghai Public Shootings
The Killing of Arab Citizens, Tanzania 1964
Slaughters in Rwanda, Rwandan Massacre of 1994
The Killing of Tutsi, Kilgali 1994
Execution of Robert Manne in Liberia, Africa on November 22, 1992
Executions of the Firing Squad of Saddam Hussein in Iraq
The Killing of Kurdish Civilians, Iraq, Late 1980’s
Gas Bombings of Halabja, Iraq
Genocidal Executions in Former Yugoslavia
Execution Chambers Where Men Were Killed with Hammers in Bosnia, 1992
Hezbollah Executions in Beirut During Lebanon’s Civil War
Execution of Mohammadine by Hezbollah Fire Squad (full video also found on best Gore)
and more……
Following stats were provided in the movie, showing how many executions were carried out in particular parts of the world:
Western Colonies (1900 – 1945) – 200,000 Executions
Armenians (1916) – 600,000 Executions
World War I, Military and Civilian – 400,000 Executions
Russian Civil War (1917 – 1919) – 100,000 Executions
Stalin’s Purges (1930’s) – 1,300,000
Japan/China Occupation (1930’s) – 200,000
The Holocaust (1941 – 1945) – 6,000,000
German Third Reich (1933 – 1945) – 1,000,000
World War II, German Military – 3,500,000
World War II, Japan Military/Civilian – 1,000,000
World War II, Soviet Military/Civilian – 1,000,000
World War II, Allied Military/Civilian – 400,000
China Civil War (1945 – 1949) – 200,000
China (1949 – 1995) – 1,500,000
African post Colonial – 3,000,000
Middle East Civilian – 600,000
U.S. Civilian (including lynching, 1900 – 1995) – 20,000
European Civilian (1900 – 1995) – 100,000
India/Pakistan Post Colonial – 500,000
Indonesia 1965 Coup – 500,000
Vietnam Wars (1954 – 1975) – 200,000
Cambodia (1975 – 1979) – 1,000,000
South America Civil & War (1965 – 1995) – 700,000
Soviet Wars/Invasions (1945 – 1995) – 100,000
Soviet Internal Gulags (1945 – 1990) – 250,000
East Timor (1975 – 1995) – 100,000
Rwanda (1994) – 700,000
Iran/Iraq War & Kurdish (1975 – 1995) – 200,000
The movie was directed by David Herman, Arun Kumar and David Monaghan. The script was written by David Herman and David Monaghan.
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Posted by Best Gore on June 19, 2009 in Beheading, Electrocution, Execution, Medical, Stoning, War In Iraq
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I have seen this. Very informative
I have seen this documentary already. very interesting and educational
The execution of Mohammadine Salar perhaps like was the one I could never ever forget. I don’t know anything behind the events, but to see him just breathe himself to death was just unnerving, and to think it all happened without any legal judge or jury and probably, no evidence or even no assurance that he actually did it.
I never believed in death penalty, especially from where I am from, but sometimes, society’s survival is in its own sacrifice. The innocent often have to suffer to keep society in equilibrium. There was this work by Melville that I remembered as I was watching this. I guess we have to live with it that civilized society has different shades of civility in them. To some, stoning is a glorious way of death as it is a barbaric method to some. It’s the differences in method that give color to the aforementioned though above–that society, in some way, has to act upon it’s own barbarity and taboo to keep itself civilized.
Thanks for putting this up. I’ve seen multiple executions from this documentary as 1-minute clips on the internet, but this really got the story straight.
Great film.
Very engrossing and informative, one of the best additions to this website.
Thanks! One of the best things I’ve seen on this site.
Watched the whole way through. Absolutely fascinating clip. Hope to see more like this.
Wow. Fascinating!
This certainly makes you think again about execution as a means of bringing people to justice.
Very good film.
This is far from an objective look at executions. It states a quite obvious anti-death penalty/execution stance. That’s fine and all, but there are some highly questionable comments within the video. Lethal injection as used across the United States is far removed from Nazi Germany. That is an unfair and highly biased jump in logic. Further, the video fails to explain that lethal injection uses a three drug cocktail that first uses a fast acting sedative, followed by a paralytic agent, and finally by thiopental that stops the heart. They didn’t even care to explain this procedure.
A very interesting glimpse into the past, but highly unresearched and anything but objective.
Kevin,
did you take into account that the documentary was filmed in 1995? Many things have changed since. You are probably looking at reality through the eyes of today, where as producers of this documentary were looking at it through the eyes of 1995. Think about it.
I hope that everyone know islam is the root of all evil, death to them all reagrdless of innocence, women, children, all, f*ck them all, may they they burn and rot in an eternal fire, pieces of dog sh*t.
If you are of this faith f*ck you and may you die a thousand deaths, all of you; we must rid the world of this prehistoric and foul religion
I have seen this before and and I “enjoyed” seeing it again. However since 1995, you will have to update the last 15 years in the Middle East thanks to GWHB jr. And probably some other places in the world too.
I still believe in the death pen. but it is sad to see it so misused in other countries.
I watched the whole thing, very very educational, schools should adopt this, NOT as a form of entertainment, but to teach the modern youth the importance of life and the value of living life to the fullest, as well as letting them see the reality of life to prepare a young person properly for his/her’s future.
The death penalty is just something that has to be done. I appretiate, for lack of a better word, the quick and relativly painless killing techniques of china.
I belive in death penalty also too bad it’s been missused . for what am i concerned , if you’re guilty of murder , rape , pedophilia, torture , drug dealing , weapon smugling, u have no right to live , the other citizens have no obligation for funding your jail days .
Ps: americans should brag less about loosing ppl and blah blah. statistics show they suffered the less civilian looses in all their history . all their wars have been fought on foreign lands (except the independance one)
i believe in executions for crimes that will get you 2 or more life sentences. in the words of Ron White “If you kill someone, we will kill you back”
i watched the whole thing love the history behind it!
Very great documentary.
But i believe a death penaty should happen.
and should be pursued after the accused is sentanced.
My taxs dollars are spent keeping a death sentace,
In death room?
nah fuck that. kill them.
oh and B?
your a very arrogant fuck.
Your being an extreme red-neck.
calm down and get your research right.
Islam isnt bad.
The extremests are. duh.
WESTINGHOUSE AC?! YEA RIGHT WTF?!?!
The commenters below that atack Islam need to be informed that TRUE Islam is a peaceful religion that does NOT condone nor encourage the killing of people.Islam is not my religion so I don’t say this to promote or redeem my own belief system.If someone does not agree with your religious views then you have 2 intelligent options.
1.) Live and let live.
2.) If you seriously believe that the person is jeopardizing their soul evangelize and attempt to counsel a person and do so out of LOVE.
Any God that would advise killing is a false God as no God would create something only to want to watch it destroy itself in the name of it’s creator.
If you honestly believe the opposite of that then you are making human sacrifices to an evil God that only created the world to have an arena of suffering to view daily….and what kind of God is that to worship.
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace.” -Jimmy Hendrix
omg dude…. tec,
shut up.
we dont need an analizer.
and there is no god.
duh.
I totally agree with you Kevin, far from objective is right on the money.
While this is a very informative and historically film, I must question the filmakers as to why they lump unjustified killing (geonicide) into the same argument and related case to death penalty. The Dealth Penalty is part of a legal system. True, many are not as just or sophisticated as the US but, it doesn’t change the fact that the death penalty is used on those deserving to die. In this film it seeks to show that the execution methods used in the death penalty are inhumane. Ummmm….SO WHAT! Most of the people killed are people who did horrible things and DESERVE TO DIE. Again, good film and accurate, but really – if you’re going to make a political statement…do not merge geonicide and war killings into the same argument for or against the death penalty…it’s just not the same.
Fascinating…but have we learned any lesson? I think the internet, with all these hundreds of GORE sites, is causing us to become insensitive to the violence and decay which plagues us.
quit interesting,,,
People are damn killing machines
that last one was fucking sick. at least he did his best to take it like a man……