Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment vs Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 55m. Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones is the older of the two (1990 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones| Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment | Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1990 |
| Length | 1h | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Steve Lawson | Ellen Weissbrod |
| Main cast | Richard Felix, Mark Topping | Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Big Daddy Kane, Clarence Avant, Ray Charles |
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?
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones
The extraordinary life of Quincy Jones -- one of the 20th century's most influential and talented composers, musicians and music producers -- provides the basis of this offbeat, free-form documentary tribute. With little regard for formal timelines and traditional documentary biography methods, the film is an amazing patchwork of personal insights featuring a constellation of music stars including his long-time friend Ray Charles, Miles Davis…
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