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Publisher
Menemsha Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this riveting historical drama, 10 political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of Rivonia during the summer of 1963. Bram Fischer, a sympathetic lawyer, risks his career and freedom to defend these men. Gold Award winner at the 2017 **Mill...
2) The judge
Publisher
Village Roadshow Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
Publisher
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper....
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that catapults her into one of the most important public figures...
6) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish edition]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
8) 12 angry men
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
10) The Mauritanian
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor,...
11) La vérité
Series
Criterion collection volume 960
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominated film delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
12) The insult
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the infamous Leo Frank case. A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin Hunter is a high profile lawyer who has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist C.J. Nicholas begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney's perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with Hunter, C.J. frames himself as a murder suspect to catch the...
16) Darrow & Darrow
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Claire Darrow, a lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Naomi, Claire's estranged mother and a lawyer as well, would rather make a profit. They clash on nearly everything, even on the best way to raise Claire's daughter. When a close friend is convicted of stealing from an expensive jewelry store, it's up to Claire to bring justice.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A famous but troubled author whose fascination with a high-profile murder case brings his own dark past into focus. Based on the best-selling memoir by Stephen Elliott, the film follows one man's desperate journey through sex, drugs and lies as he tries to separate fact from fiction and ignite a life-changing romance.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A church destroyed. A congregation silenced. A relationship shattered. Yet even in life's darkest valleys, a small flame can light the way toward healing and hope. After a deadly fire rips through St. James Church, Hadleigh University leaders use the tragedy to push the congregation off campus, forcing the church to defend its rights and bringing together estranged brothers for a reunion that opens old wounds and forces them to address the issues...
19) God's not dead 2
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 1 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
20) 12
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
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