Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape vs Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape and Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment are tied on audience score (10/10). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 8m. Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape posterChernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape2026 VS Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment posterExecutions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment2025
Chernobyl: 48 Hours To EscapeExecutions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20262025
Length1h 8m1h
GenresDocumentary, History, TV MovieDocumentary
CountryUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom
DirectorLuke WalesSteve Lawson
Main castRalph InesonRichard Felix, Mark Topping

Synopsis

Chernobyl: 48 Hours To Escape

Witnesses, survivors and front-line heroes recall the first days of the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986. Featuring rare archive footage of the world's worst ever nuclear accident.

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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