Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment vs Life and Other Problems
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for Life and Other Problems). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 37m. Life and Other Problems is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Life and Other Problems| Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment | Life and Other Problems | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h | 1h 37m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Steve Lawson | Max Kestner |
| Main cast | Richard Felix, Mark Topping | Max Kestner, Karen Lloyd, Eske Willerslev, Charles Foster |
Synopsis
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?
Life and Other Problems
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
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