Courtroom Movies

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

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El...

A juror attempts to convince the other 11 jurors to question the guilt of a 16 year old boy accused of killing his father.

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

Nandhini, a law student who is caught in a precarious situation, fights for justice for a gruesome crime involving herself.

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

Yusuf, who attacked seven people with a knife in the middle of the street, begins to tell his life story in court. Yusuf, who was orphaned at a young...

A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.

Christine Levitt goes to extreme lengths to become famous, to the dismay of her friend Billie Cooper.

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...

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

A man feels so much guilt over being infected by venereal disease that he conjures up a personal trial over his own behaviour.

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