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Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Portrays the Scopes monkey trial, where a defense attorney represents a teacher who taught evolution and the prosecutor worked to keep the teaching of evolution out of Tennessee schools.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No body, motive or weapon. The facts in the Australian murder trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain didn₂t add up. But other things did: bigotry against the couple₂s religion. Scattershot forensic evidence taken as fact. And a hysteria that was the 1980s equivalent of a Salem witchhunt.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film is based on the infamous true story of a young girl who is tricked into a life of prostitution in New Orleans and goes on trial for murdering her pimp/lover. Producer and co-director Dorothy Davenport Reid became a director after the tragic death of her husband matinee idol Wallace Reid in 1923 from an accidental drug overdose.
5) Primal fear
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
At the mouth of the Amazon River, a murder trial is taking place. The victim - Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio - was shot six times at point blank range. The events that led to her death, and the trials that follow, reveal the larger battle being fought for the future of the rain forest. With unprecedented access to both sides of the conflict, this gripping documentary follows the real-life drama at the trials of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 117 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A New York-based Jewish real estate tycoon is suddenly accused of being a Nazi war criminal. At his trial in Israel, he adopts a shocking defense which raises more questions than it answers. Based on Robert Shaw's book and play.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, p1992
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A college student and his friend are accused of murder in the depths of the South, and law school graduate cousin Vinny comes to the rescue. The trouble is, Vinny passed the bar on his sixth try and has never appeared in court before.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 498 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
10) Denial
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the international headline-grabbing story of the now infamous American exchange student accused by Italian authorities of brutally killing her roommate. Did Knox, the Seattle honors student accused of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007 with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and acquaintance Rudy Guede, actually commit the crime, or was she a victim herself?
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes: Leonard Lake and Charles Ng-Calaveras County Serial Killings; John Bodkin Adams and other Infamous Doctors; Heidnick and Dahmer-Killers for Company; Judge Joe Peel and the Chillingworth Murders; Sacco and Vanzetti; Browne and Kennedy and more.
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes: Mark Chapman and the murder of John Lennon; Gaston Dominici and the Drummond murders; Henry Lee Lucas-The Highway Stalker; Donald Hume-The Setty Case; John Duffy-The Railway Killer; and Graham Young-The Compulsive Poisoner.
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes: Sir Harry Oakes-the Bahamas Murder Mystery; Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce); DeFeo and Benson-Inheritance Killers; Donald Merrett-The Murderous Buccaneer; Roy Fontaine-The Deadly Butler; and Buck Ruxton-The Ravine Bodies Mystery.
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes: Siege of Sidney Street; Leopold and Loeb; The Zodiac Killer and Other Unsolved Serial Murders; Assassination of Robert Kennedy; Poi Pot and the Killing Fields of Cambodia; Massacre at Malmedy; Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In March 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the 20th century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being forced by the Nazis to sing defeatist war propaganda, Mildred Gillars is captured by American authorities and sent to trial. After agreeing to defend Mildred Gillars, lawyer James Laughlin struggles to redeem her reputation.
19) Closed circuit
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
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