Courtroom Movies

What happens when a system stops treating symptoms and starts eliminating risk?

A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

The events of a woman thought to have died in a plane crash when she returns five years later.

A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.

Anthropologist Laura Nader's first field trip to a Zapotec Indian village in Oaxaca, Mexico, in the late 1950s, led her to study problem-solving in...

A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her...

A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule.

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a...

A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accused by the law in terrorist...

A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.

In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but...

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That...

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly...

A grieving defense attorney gets caught in a twisted game of who-done-it when he takes on the case of a beautiful socialite who is accused of murder.

The funny love and marriage story of 4 people 2 of who is a couple that want to divorce and the other 2 are their attorneys.