Cover-Up 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 8/10 for Cover-Up). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 57m. Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Cover-UpExecutions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20252025
Length1h 57m1h
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorLaura Poitras, Mark ObenhausSteve Lawson
Main castSeymour HershRichard Felix, Mark Topping

Synopsis

Cover-Up

For the past six decades, Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the U.S. This arresting documentary, released at a crucial moment for the freedom of the press, tells the wide-ranging story of this breakthrough reporter.

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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