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1) Aspen
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aspen takes place at a Colorado ski resort in the 1960s. Lee Bishop (Perry King) is on trial for the rape/murder of a 15-year-old girl. His friend and attorney, Tom Keating (Sam Elliott), is desperately trying to prove his innocence.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Will Burton is a junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm, who specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. Much to the aggravation of his courtroom rival, Maggie Gardner, Will has never lost a case. His talents acquit serial killer Liam Foyle of murder, and it is only a matter of time until Foyle kills again.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (239 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is a stunning psychological thriller about a respected female scientist and the single irrational act that leads to her standing trial for murder. Yvonne Carmichael, is a married woman living a quiet life with her husband and two children. Her world is turned upside down when a chance meeting with Mark Costley leads to a passionate affair and a moment of shocking violence. Her only way out is to admit the truth, the truth that would destroy her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1218
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When Sandra Voyter, a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration--or was it suicide?--of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that will turn a troubled home inside out"--
8) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Description
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xiv, 110 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
"On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece.".
"Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic...
11) Juror number 2
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Juror #2" follows family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the accused killer.
12) Her alibi
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philip Blackwood, a mystery novelist, seeks inspiration for his writing by visiting a courtroom where he becomes involved with a beautiful Romanian arraigned for murder.
13) Please murder me
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A lawyer suffers a guilt complex after securing a murder acquittal for his client, and then finding out she committed the crime.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller....
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