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An historical drama set during the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Rudolph Abel is utilized as an example to highlight the different systemic issues in the court system of the era.

A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing several children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career. His law firm failed due to the burden of representing families of children who died. The opposing attornyes used time, money, and trickery to prevent a just solution.

After a car accident, Erin pleaded with her attorney to hire her at his law firm. She stumbled upon some medical records placed in real estate files and convinced her boss to allow her to investigate, where she discovered a cover-up involving contaminated water in a local community which caused devastating illnesses among its residents.

An acclaimed documentary series which first aired on PBS in 1987 and won multiple Emmy Awards. It uses personal testimony, newsreels and archival footage, as well as the overview of modern historians, to tell the story of the American Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Divided into one-hour segments, the film deals with the key events and crises that impacted and changed the racial landscape of the American South.

The second season of this Civil Rights documentary chronicles the time period between the national emergence of Malcolm X during 1964 to the 1983 election of Harold Washington as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.

A rookie military lawyer has a good record based on plea bargaining but no real courtroom experience. He faced a crisis of confidence when he defended Marines accused of murder. The Marines insisted they were acting on orders of a military icon. The rookie lawyer disccovered he has a talent for the courtroom and a thirst for jsutice.

A young prosecutor was climbing the career ladder towards success when he found an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal whom he is prosecuting for the murder of his wife.

The film is a fictionalized version of the Judges' Trial of 1947, one of the twelve Nuremberg Military Tribunals conducted under the auspices of the U.S. government. It centers on four German judges and prosecutors accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. The questions regarding Germans' individual and collective responsibility for the Holocaust, with the backdrop of a tense international situation including the onset of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade, and the geopolitical ramification of the later Nuremberg Trials upon German support for the Western Bloc, are factors in reaching a just verdict.

A Harvard Law School law professor was lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child. The accused was charged due to a coerced confession at the hands of a local sheriff. The prosecutors and police are not interested in the exculpatory evidence that the law professor provided. The law professor began to suspect that a psychotic serial killer may be the real culprit. But the deeper he gets, the more he realized that he doesn't know who's innocent at all.

A powerful true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Bryan rejected lucrative job offers and went 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 was that of Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), which is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States.

This movie is a comedic look at Harvard Law School life. Dumped by her boyfriend, that girl decided to attend law school. She aced the LSAT, prepared a personal video statement and was admitted to Harvard Law. The firlm shows academic one-upsmanship, cattiness and arrogance as she made her own statement throughout the campus and law school.

A lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one crime. The lawyer often works out of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Navigator instead of an office.

In the 1960's, Richard Loving fell in love with Mildred Jeter. They decided to marry when Mildred became pregant; however in the state of Virginia, their interracial marriage violated anti-miscegenation laws. The legal battle to legalize interracial marriage ended with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

The early career of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, depicts the defense of Joseph Spell for the offense of committing the rape and murder of Eleanor Strubing. The legal battle involved racial discrimination of Marshall's presence in court and he had to adapt to the judge's conditions to successfully assist his client.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was detained in Mauretania by officials claiming that Americans wanted to talk to him. The situation led into years of abuse, rape and maltreatment on behalf of the American officials who incarcerated him at Guantanemo Bay. The film, based on his memoir, follows his legal journey to achieve freedom, as his lawyers slowly realized he was not cuplable for any actions relating to the 9/11 attacks.

A few New York teenagers were travelling to college in California when they were detained in the south, landed in jail and charged with first degree murder. Cousin Vinny, a mechanic and new lawyer, who passed the bar exam after multiple attempts, was sent to the rescue. This film combines comedy and drama and highlights regional and class differences.

Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Pauli Murray fought for social justice. Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet and priest, they influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall

The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her difficulty finding employment as a new attorney and mother, and her struggles for equal rights. It highlights the early cases of a historic career that led to her nomination and confirmation as the second female U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. Her experiences transformed gender equality laws.

Few law school classrooms today match the scene in this movie set at Harvard Law School. A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and a woman, unaware that she has a connection that affects their relationship. The mobie became a television series in 1978.

A law student used research databases to discover what lead to the recent assassination of two Supreme Court Justices. Her theory was detailed in a brief which fell into the wrong hands. From that time on, shewas running for her life. Kudos to the librarian who taught her how to use Westlaw and Lexis.

A gay lawyer in a prestigious Phildelphia law firm was fired after partners discovered that he had AIDS. He turned to a homophobic personal injury lawyer to represent him in his suit against his former law firm.

Based on Harper Lee's novel, a lawyer in a small Alabama town in the 1930's was appointed by a judge to defend a Black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman. Told through the eyes of an 8 year old girl over a three-year period, her father risks everything to defend him.

The film follows the Chicago Seven, a group of anti–Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intent to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It delves into the politics and navigation of the Vietnam War.

An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case of a woman in a permanent, comatose state to trial rather than settling. His opposition is the Catholic hospital and he wants to do what is right for his client.