
This film should shock - because truth hurts.
Examines real footage of the various methods humanity has used throughout history for capital punishment. The makers point out how unjustifiable the death penalty is in every situation, so they do take a staunch stance against what's presented.
The film's tagline is: "This film should shock - because truth hurts."
The film was directed by David Herman.
The screenplay was written by David Monaghan.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt0150490.

2024
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1977
This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as families of people executed by them.

1978
What question has plagued mankind more than the mystery—and terror—of death? This forbidden pursuit has driven Dr. Frances B. Gröss to the brink of madness, but in his obsession, he has amassed a uniquely comprehensive collection of films that depict life in its final, grueling moments. From the savagery of cold-blooded murder to the perverse realities of war, tragic accidents, and the everyday lives of those who collect, dissect, and bury the dead, this descent into morbidity lays bare a truth that all of us will one day face.

1962
A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
1963
Mondo documentary.
1964
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene.

1969
Tourist Paris by day, then by night, with its cabarets and stripteases: the academic poses of Montparnasse, Maria Toxedo the naked dancer, forbidden love, the can-can for two, the naked models, Loulou Santiago, the hippies and love, the slave of desire, magazines prohibited for minors, monokini pose session.

1965
The sensational follow-up to "London in the Raw," "Primitive London" sets out to reflect society's decay through a sideshow spectacle of 1960s London depravity—and manages to outdo its predecessor. Here, we confront mods, rockers and beatniks at the Ace Café, cut some rug with obscure beat band The Zephyrs, smirk at flabby men in the sauna and goggle at sordid wife-swapping parties as we discover a pre-permissive Britain still trying to move on from the post-war depression of the 1950s.

1988
The final official installment in the "Mondo Cane" series dares to go where no other Mondo film has gone before.
Good
8 votes
Executions
Released
NC-17
English
United Kingdom