Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter, Jr
Continuing his fascination with the most unlikely of documentary topics, filmmaker Errol Morris turns his camera on a quiet man who made dying his life's work. Self-taught capital punishment expert Fred Leuchter became the country's leading authority on designing 'humane' killing methods, until his testimony denying the Holocaust in a Canadian Neo-Nazi's 1988 trial proved to be his professional and personal downfall.
Year: 1999
Genre: Documentaries, General Docos, Political Docos, Biography
Country: USA
Director: Errol Morris
Starring: Fred A Leuchter, Caroline Leuchter
Duration: 91 Minutes
Rating: M
7.5/10
Location in store: Documentary (Biographies)
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