Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment vs Obsessed with Light
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for Obsessed with Light). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 30m. Obsessed with Light is the older of the two (2023 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment
Obsessed with Light| Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment | Obsessed with Light | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Steve Lawson | Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum |
| Main cast | Richard Felix, Mark Topping | Cherry Jones |
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?
Obsessed with Light
Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s, signed by the Folies Bergère of Paris, became a star. She was portrayed by Toulouse-Lautrec, loved by the symbolists, the inspiration for Art Nouveau, in her shows she combined dance, spirals of fabric and light, reflected from behind or from below through the glass floor that she had created. She…
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