A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

Season

2025

7

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.

Episode List

S1 • E1

1.1

When Ruth Ellis is arrested following the shooting of her lover David Blakely, we learn how the two became embroiled in a relationship.

S1 • E2

1.2

When Ruth Ellis is arrested following the shooting of her lover David Blakely, we learn how the two became embroiled in a relationship.

S1 • E3

1.3

Ruth, a condemned woman awaits her execution while grappling with memories of love, shattered hopes, and impending motherhood. Her attorney races against time for clemency as she confronts mortality and her unborn child's future.