Better Living Through Chemistry vs Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 27m. Better Living Through Chemistry is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Better Living Through Chemistry
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment| Better Living Through Chemistry | Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 0.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2021 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 1h |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | United Kingdom |
| Director | Connie Littlefield | Steve Lawson |
| Main cast | Ann Shulgin, Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, Greg Manning, Brian Perry | Richard Felix, Mark Topping |
Synopsis
Better Living Through Chemistry
In the 1970s, Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin significantly contributed to the development and psychopharmaceutical use of MDMA: a catalyst to personal doors entombed or unknown. His widow, co-author, and research partner, Ann—alongside friends, family, and colleagues—gives a guided tour of their life and laboratory, reflecting on how risks and revelations opened a world of compound enlightenment. Stippled with spirituality, sadness, and…
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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