The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

Name: The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Genre: History, Horror
Released: 1895-08-28
Duration: 1 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Robert Thomae

1895·History·1m

6.8

★

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

Directed by William Heise

queen

tudor

decapitation

executioner

black and white

execution

silent film

16th century

grim

real story

short film

history

IMDB

N/A

Crew

William Heise

Director

William Heise

Director of Photography

Thomas A. Edison

Producer

Popular Reviews

86 reviews

ignacia jerez

8.0★ · 10/22/24

heads will roll circa 1895

Milan

9.0★ · 06/02/26

As we mean to go on

margaret

1.0★ · 05/04/26

INI 1895 BTW...... berarti...

NoahPRO

I did not see that coming

Merijeo

10.0★ · 03/26/26

This is actually crazy how violence can be shown this brutally already a century ago. Cinema has evolved through its special effects and how such things are shown, but still, this is just so wonderful to see how creative we have been since then, and we use such techniques to portray such acts with limited tech