Criminal Justice System Movies

An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for...

A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers...

A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.

The Nature of the Beast explores the life and case of a woman, Bonnie Jean Foreshaw, who was subjected to years of abuse, as a child and in three...

Progressive Amputation is introduced as a new form of punishment for particularly heinous crimes, in this pitch-black social satire by Matt Richards.

In the province of Tucumán, Argentina, follow Julieta, a young woman accused of infanticide, and Soledad Deza, the bold lawyer who risks...

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a...

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated...

A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.

The Miami-Dade Community Mental Health Project comes to life in this documentary, following a team of dedicated public servants working through the...

The story of the South Shore Resource and Advocacy Center, five survivors of domestic violence, and their experience in the Massachusetts justice...

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced...

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a...

Chattam is a 2011 action Telugu film directed by P. A. Arun Prasad. Natti Kumar and Rama Satyanarayana are jointly producing this movie. Jagapathi...

Convinced of her son's innocence after he's charged with murder, a woman fights for his freedom against a corrupt and unjust system.

The impact of mass incarceration is explored through an annual charity trip that takes children to visit their imprisoned mothers.

By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...

“The Vanishing Trial” looks into “trial penalty,” the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence a person...