Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment vs The Last Class

Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment and The Last Class are tied on audience score (10/10). Executions: The Rise and Fall of Capital Punishment is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 11m. Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20252025
Length1h 1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorSteve LawsonElliot Kirschner
Main castRichard Felix, Mark ToppingRobert Reich

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?

The Last Class

American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's…

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