A Rifle and a Bag vs Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment

Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.3/10 for A Rifle and a Bag). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 29m. A Rifle and a Bag is the older of the two (2020 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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A Rifle and a BagExecutions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Audience score★ 5.3/10★ 10.0/10
Year20202025
Length1h 29m1h
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryIndiaUnited Kingdom
DirectorArya Rothe, Cristina HaneșSteve Lawson
Main cast–Richard Felix, Mark Topping

Synopsis

A Rifle and a Bag

Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares for this new phase of their parenthood. It means that their son has to go to school, but as an ex-Naxalite that is tough to achieve in contemporary India, where people like them are third-rate citizens. They lack the certificates and an opaque bureaucratic process doesn't help. Directors Isabella Rinaldi, Cristina Hanes and Arya Rothe of the NoCut…

Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment

From ancient practices such as death by a thousand cuts and hanging, drawing and quartering to the modern scientific era of lethal injection, we ask the question: do the most horrific crimes deserve the most horrific of punishments?

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