Fourteen Days in May
Fourteen Days in May | |
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Directed by | Paul Hamann |
Produced by | Paul Hamann |
Starring | British Broadcasting Corporation |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Fourteen Days in May is a
The documentary crew, given access to the prison warden, guards and chaplain and to Johnson and his family, filmed the last days of Johnson's life in detail. The documentary argues against the
Fourteen Days in May won a British Film Institute Grierson Award and a top prize at the Festival dei Populi. It has been shown in many countries but has only appeared in an abbreviated form in the United States, on HBO. Hamann disowned this shortened version.
It was in direct response to this documentary that the Lifelines organisation was set up, to organise pen pals for death row prisoners.[2]
The 1988 track '14 Days in May' by British rapper Overlord X contains samples from this documentary and can be found on the compilation album Street Sounds Hip Hop 20.
See also
References
- ^ Countdown to an execution in Mississippi. (1987)
- ^ "History". lifelines-uk.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2019.