Death Row - Man sentenced to die of capital punishment in electric chair
A close-up view of a rope with a hangman's noose knot, swinging in the breeze as it hangs from the branch of a tree - seamless looping.
Unrecognizable criminal in uniform with license plate, close-up
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UK - 1933 - in this drama, after a prisoner's visitors leave, he cries out for being left alone. As the visitor and the little boy, Oliver Twist, get into a carriage, a priest and an executioner approach the prisoner's dungeon.
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UK - 1933 - in this drama, an old prisoner gives Oliver Twist a ring. Then, he urges him to take him outside, walking him slowly to a wall, but the warden stops him and takes Oliver outside.
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ITALY - 1918 - in this silent drama, a man with a wooden board locked firmly around his neck is placed on stacked bricks. After his tormentors leave, he tries to reach for a carafe of water that is hanging from a rope.
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ITALY - 1918 - in this silent drama, her husband's kidnapper enters a woman's home. Meanwhile, her husband has a wooden board locked firmly around his neck, and his captors remove a few bricks on which he stands to increase his suffering.
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ITALY - 1918 - in this silent drama, a criminal gang prepares a man's execution by placing blocks before him, on which he is expected to stand. A wooden device is locked around his neck. Elsewhere, his distraught wife is worried.
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ITALY - 1918 - in this silent drama, a man, condemned to death, asks for a cigarette. A wooden device is locked around his neck, and his hands are bound, but at the end of the scene, some people untie them.
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ITALY - 1918 - in this silent crime film, a man refuses to tell a gang of thieves the location of stolen money, shouting that he fears no death. The "judge" verifies with his pet rat and then passes a death sentence on the accused.
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USA - 1959 - In this crime drama, a detective speaks with a mobster about his odds of living against the mob of a getting capital punishment.
License plate on the clothes of a capital prisoner, close-up
Unrecognizable criminal in prison uniform and number tag, close-up
FRANCE - 1919 - in this historical film, Madame du Barry is led to the guillotine. She struggles fiercely, protesting her sentence, but she is beheaded while the crowd cheers.
INDIA - 1929 - in this epic film, a man pushes another man to his death from a cave on a high cliff wand.
EGYPT - 1922 - in this silent epic, enraged and hurt by his wife's treason, a pharaoh decides to wall her up and leave her to die. She reacts coldly and with pride.
FRANCE - 1919 - in this historical film, the Revolutionary Tribunal sentences Madame du Barry to death. Desperately, she tries to save herself by pleading with the secretary but is led away.
US - 1975 - in this horror film, a Puritan leader condemns a Satan worshipper to die at the stake, but the latter laughs and curses the town and several people for all eternity.