Dry Wood 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 6.2/10 for Dry Wood). Dry Wood is the shorter watch at 37m compared with 1h . Dry Wood is the older of the two (1973 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dry Wood
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment| Dry Wood | Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1973 | 2025 |
| Length | 37m | 1h |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | United Kingdom |
| Director | Les Blank, Maureen Gosling | Steve Lawson |
| Main cast | – | Richard Felix, Mark Topping |
Synopsis
Dry Wood
Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait of life, food, music and festivity in the Louisiana Delta from the singular Les Blank. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
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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