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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jason, a lawyer, poses as a john to build a legal case against the ruthless pimp who is trafficking girls into Thailand. He meets number eighteen; a girl forced to work as a prostitute in a busy Bangkok bar, only to discover her testimony is key to proving his case.
2) The judge
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
3) The jury
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comprehensive six-part series of a shocking murder trial and the jurors affected by it.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A courtroom drama of rape and premeditated murder is brought to life. A humble small-town lawyer against a hard-headed big city prosecutor. Emotions flare as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive, beautiful wife.
5) Legal eagles
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hard-nosed assistant district attorney and an imaginative defense attorney combine their talents to defend a spacey "performance artist" who is accused of theft and murder.
7) Evelyn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a custody case brought before the Irish courts in 1955, Desmond Doyle is a father fighting for the custody of his three children after abandonment by their mother. Due to the Irish law of the time, children could not be raised by one parent in what the courts considered a broken home, thus allowing the Doyle children to be placed in church run orphanages, where neglect and cruelty were not out of the ordinary. Desmond will take his fight...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The trial: A man wakens one morning to find that he has been arrested for an unknown offense, and must look beyond the judicial system to prove his innocence.
Escape from Sobibór: After an escape from the Treblinka, the Nazi commandant threatens the lives of the prisoners at Sobibór in case of an escape attempt, but since the prisoners know that they are only awaiting their executions, they plan a mass escape. A thriller based on a true story....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
11) The Mauritanian
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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,...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (243 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo: Don Quijote, quien está obsesionado con el título de caballero y sus códigos de honor, y Sancho Panza, su singular escudero, recuerdan las aventuras que han compartido. Un Quijote sin mancha: El pasante legal dedicado Junto ejerce los derechos de los desfavorecidos, trabajando con una amplia gama de clientes cómicos.
14) Just mercy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
15) The Children Act
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
16) The Caine mutiny
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage...
18) The hurricane
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 26 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
19) Denial
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Deborah Lipstadt speaks out against Holocaust denier David Irving over his falsification of history, she discovers that the stakes are higher than ever in the battle for historical truth. Now faced with a libel lawsuit in British court, Lipstadt and her attorney have the heavy burden of proving that the Holocaust actually happened, in a riveting legal fight with stunning consequences.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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