A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

Miniseries

TV-14

94%

Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manager, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged.

Where to Watch A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story • Miniseries

4 Episodes

1.1
E1
1.1Young nightclub manager Ruth Ellis is arrested for murder. She has shot her lover, glamorous racing driver David Blakely. The year is 1955, and Ruth faces the prospect of being hanged for her crime. But Ruth's lawyer suspects that the tragedy runs deeper than meets the eye. Now he begins a desperate fight to save Ruth from the gallows. But he fights in vain.
1.2
E2
1.2At the Old Bailey, Ruth faces judgment shaped by British class and legal biases. Bickford fears she’s withholding vital details that could save her. Outside the courtroom, we uncover her sacrifices for David and a toxic love triangle.
1.3
E3
1.3Found guilty and sentenced to hang, Ruth reflects on her relationship, lost dreams, and pregnancy, as her lawyer pressures the Home Office for a reprieve. Desperate and reliant on Desmond for her son, Ruth faces the weight of her looming fate.
1.4
E4
1.4The day before Ruth's execution, she finally agrees to tell her new lawyer, Victor Mishcon, the full story, the whole truth. Mishcon has twenty-four hours to save her life.