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== Anime ==

== Anime and Manga ==

* In one episode of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'', Eledore and Michel are scheduled to be executed at dawn after being captured by Zeon troops.

* Nicola Fafas is executed in ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'' for daring to discover evidence that Newtypes can be born on Earth as well as space.

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== Film ==

* The film ''Breaker Morant'', about the court martial of Harry Morant and Peter Handcock during the Boer War, ends with their dawn execution by firing squad.

* The film ''[[Breaker Morant]]'', about the court martial of Harry Morant and Peter Handcock during the Boer War, ends with their dawn execution by firing squad.

* Seen in ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (film)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]].''

* [[Paths of Glory]] starring Kirk Douglas. After an ill-planned attack fails, three solders are selected, condemned by a kangaroo court-martial for cowardice, and shot at dawn.

* ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' starring Kirk Douglas. After an ill-planned attack fails, three solders are selected, condemned by a kangaroo court-martial for cowardice, and shot at dawn.

* The two German boys from ''[[War Horse]]'' are executed after the elder pulls the younger from marching to the front.

* ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie]]'': after being arrested by Gavan, the Gokaigers are supposed to be executed by firing squad.

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** Averted in "Genesis of the Daleks", after the Doctor is captured. His captors remark that normally he would be executed by firing squad, but since ammunition is so scarce, he'll be hanged instead.

** This also happens in the Fifth Doctor story "The Caves Of Androzani". The Doctor and Peri are captured and sentenced to death. Unusually, neither one refuses a blindfold (or, in this case, a red hood) but that's because {{spoiler|they're android duplicates.}}

* {{spoiler|Tom Zarek}} and {{spoiler|Felix Gaeta}} on ''[[Battlestar Galactica ~~Reimagined~~]]''.

* {{spoiler|Tom Zarek}} and {{spoiler|Felix Gaeta}} on ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''.

* One episode of [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] features the Soviets trying to execute a guy via the firing squad. [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|The firing squad misses]]. [[What an Idiot!|Repeatedly]].

* One episode of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' features the Soviets trying to execute a guy via the firing squad. [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|The firing squad misses]]. [[What an Idiot!|Repeatedly]].

* A common sketch on ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' has one of the kids apparently in front of a firing squad in some [[Banana Republic]]. Many sketches end with the commander getting shot instead.

* One episode of ''[[Get Smart]]'' played with this, where Max was put up against a wall and soldiers who always obeyed orders were arrayed in front of him, with the officer giving the orders behind the soldiers. [[Genre Savvy]] readers can tell how well that went: