Courtroom Movies

Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.

A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.

Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was...

This trial of the century was the first nationally televised TRUE LIFE soap opera, a tangle of salacious plotlines. OJ SIMPSON TRIAL: THE REAL STORY...

In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts...

Part of BBC Arena's Animal Night, this film chronicles a strange era in history when animals were put on trial in human courts.

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Ghandi from June 1975...

The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion.

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

When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.

A movie premiere gone awry leads to an equally chaotic trial to determine the fate of four amateur filmmakers.

Thirty years on from the trial that shocked the world, new documents reveals what happened in the courtroom hearing from the lawyers, jurors and...

This film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him...

The brilliant actor and comedian Enrique San Francisco undergoes a very particular trial during which he will have to account for his turbulent past...

The murder of an innocent, happy couple leads to a courtroom trial that would sentence the killer to death, but who really did it?

Esarparen is a man who a long time wished death of his wife and suddenly is accused of murdering her. He protests his innocence. Does he speak the...

An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt on his life, Alan B’Stard returns to...

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

This documentary offers a rare look at domestic abuse through the concept of coercive control. With exceptional access to hearings in Poitiers,...

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...