the Death of Trotsky (1993) – comedy about Leon Trotsky Emily Mann, Execution of Justice (199?) – play about George Moscone and Harvey Milk Pierre Brault, Blood on the Moon (2000) – play about D'Arcy McGee Pradeep Dalavi, Me Nathuram Godse Boltoy (2000?) – play about Mahatma Gandhi Lee Blessing, Whores (2002) – play about Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clarke, and Jean Donovan Henning Mankell, Politik (2010) – play about Olof Palme Films The list is organized chronologically by year of release, rather than year of production. Within each year, films based on genuine historical events are listed first, followed by any purely fictional entries. 1890s The Execution of Mary Stuart – 1895 Re-enactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots by Alfred Clark Néron essayant des poisons sur un esclave – 1896 French short by Georges Hatot shows Roman Emperor Nero practising a favoured assassination method, poison, on a slave Mort de Marat – 1897 French hand-coloured short by Georges Hatot about the 1793 assassination of Jean-Paul Marat in his bath by Charlotte Corday L'Assassinat du duc de Guise – 1897 French short by Georges Hatot on the 1588 assassination of the Duc de Guise by King Henri III at the Château de Blois La mort de Robespierre – 1897 French short by Georges Hatot on the 1794 execution without trial of Maximilien Robespierre 1900s Hamlet – from 1900 to 2000, dozens of film adaptations, in various languages, of the tragedy by William Shakespeare. Le Duel d'Hamlet – 1900 French sound short by Clément Maurice in which Hamlet (Sarah Bernhardt) is killed by Laertes (Pierre Magnier), based on Shakespeare's tragedy Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison – 1901 short by Edwin S. Porter recreates the electrocution of U.S. President McKinley's assassin in 1901 The Martyred Presidents – 1901 short by Edwin S. Porter memorializes the three murdered U.S. Presidents, Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley L'Assassinat de Mac Kinley – 1902 French short by Ferdinand Zecca about the assassination of U.S. Président Guillaume Mac Kinley (French rendering of William McKinley) in 1901 Assassinat de la famille royale de Serbie – 1903 French short by Lucien Nonguet about the assassination of Serbian King Alexander I and his consort, Queen Draga in 1903 L'Assassinat du grand-duc Serge – 1905 French short by Lucien Nonguet about the assassination of Russian Grand Duke Sergei by a terrorist in 1905 François Ier