List of films and TV containing corporal punishment scenes

This is a list of films and TV containing corporal punishment scenes, which may be fictional or re-created and include military, prison, domestic, judicial and westerns.

1930s

• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Flogging on board ship.
• The Drum (1938). A soldier in the British Army in India is caned with a drumstick.

1940s

• Island of Doomed Men (1940). Sadistic floggings of inmates on a penal island.
• Red River (1948). A cowboy lashes out at another man with his whip.

1950s

• Chain Gang (1950). Prisoners endure floggings at the whipping post and spend time in the sweat box.
• Against All Flags (1952). An undercover officer investigating pirates is given 20 lashes on-board ship.
• Hellgate (1952). A prisoner is lashed with a cat o'nine tails.
• Cosh Boy (1953). A young man is lashed with a belt by his step father.
• The Sun Shines Bright (1953). A dual with buggy whips ends in a thrashing.
• The Yellow Balloon (1953). A father punishes his son with a belt.
• Broken Lance (1954). An angry cowboy lashes his son with a stock whip.
• Showdown in Abilene (1956). Cowboys whip a suspected cattle rustler.
• Jailhouse Rock (1957). A prisoner, played by Elvis, is flogged by prison guards.

1960s

• Romulus and Remus (1961). A man is lashed to a wheel and spun and whipped.
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962). T. E. Lawrence is thrashed with a cane by his captors.
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). A seaman is flogged for contempt.
• Beau Geste (1966). The Legionnaire is flogged under the eyes of the sadistic Sergeant Major Dagineau.
• Gunfight in Abilene (1967). A suspected cattle rustler is whipped by cowboys.
• The Way West (1967). A US senator leading a wagon train on the Oregon Trail asks his slave to whip his back.
• if.... (1968). A trio of students are caned by their peers.
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). A British Army soldier is tied to a tripod and flogged with a cat o'nine tails.

1970s

• Performance (1970). A gangster whips a man.
• High Plains Drifter (1973). Various Western whipping scenes.
• Midnight Express (1978). Bastinado is administered in a Turkish prison.

1980s

• Brubaker (1980). Guards at an Arkansas prison farm discipline inmates with a heavy leather strap.
• Another Country (1984). A student is caned by his peers.
• Full Metal Jacket (1987) Leonard Lawerence is given a blanket party by his fellow soldiers.
• Dead Poets Society (1989). The principal of a New England boarding school disciplines with a paddle.

1990s

• The Lawnmower Man (1992). Main character is regularly whipped with a leather belt by a Catholic priest.
• Unforgiven (1992). A whipping in a town jail..
• The Cinder Path (1994). TV movie. A farm worker is forced to crawl along a cinder-covered path by the farm owner.
• Starship Troopers (1997). A soldier is bound and flogged.
• The Examination for Lieutenant (1998). Part of the Hornblower TV series. A seaman turned thief is punished by being forced to run the gauntlet.
• One Man's Hero (1999). Men of a U.S. Army battalion are lashed for suspected desertion.

2000s

• Mutiny (2002). Part of the Hornblower TV series. A sailor is given 12-of-the-best with a cane onboard ship.
• The Sopranos (2002). Season 4 , Episode 7. Tony repeatedly lashes a man with his belt.
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). A crew member is flogged for refusing to salute a midshipman.
• Vinegar Hill (2005). A man has flashbacks to the beltings he received from his father.
• Inglourious Basterds (2009). A man's back is whipped in this WWII drama.

2010s

• TimeShift: Crime and Punishment (2010). BBC documentary examining changing attitudes to corporal punishment in the 20th century.
• Six Bullets (2012). A mercenary is lashed with whips and chains.
• Spartacus: Vengeance (2012). Season 2, Episode 3. A man is lashed with a whip to make him reveal the whereabouts of Spartacus.
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). An agitator is bound to the whipping post and flogged with a cat o'nine tails.
• 12 Years a Slave (2013). A man forced into slavery is beaten with a paddle and a leather belt; later he whips a man who has tried to whip him.
• Field Punishment No. 1 (2014). Military discipline known as Field Punishment No. 1 is administered to New Zealand conscientious objectors, including Archibald Baxter during the First World War.^[1]
• Hercules (2014). A warlord is chained and lashed.
• Unbroken (2014). Main character is punished by his father with a leather belt; later he endures floggings in a prisoner of war camp.

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