Bear Island 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 5.9/10 for Bear Island). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 25m. Bear Island is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bear Island
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment| Bear Island | Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2014 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 25m | 1h |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | United Kingdom |
| Director | Edda Trandum Grjotheim, Inge Wegge | Steve Lawson |
| Main cast | – | Richard Felix, Mark Topping |
Synopsis
Bear Island
Three brothers wish to surf waves no one has surfed before them. The answer is to go to Bjørnøya, the island next to the better known Spitsbergen. For two months they live on the island, self sufficient in food and equipment.
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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