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Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch -...
2) Vanished
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, Marielle Patterson, the wife of a successful New York City businesman, is plunged into a nightmare when her son is kidnapped and a former lover is arrested for the crime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior...
4) Her alibi
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Philip Blackwood, a mystery novelist, seeks inspiration for his writing by visiting a courtroom where he becomes involved with a beautiful Romanian arraigned for murder.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Steve Hardin, a young judge must grapple with his conscience as vicious criminals in his court are going free as a result of slick lawyers finding obscure loopholes in the law. Hardin feels he is powerless until he discovers The Star Chamber, a small group of judges that deal out their own kind of vigilante justice.
6) The phantom
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Carlos DeLuna, who was executed in Texas in 1989 for the murder of Wanda Lopez, but protested his innocence and stated that another Carlos had committed the crime.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
12) House of Gucci
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
13) Primal fear
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
14) Inherit the wind
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A small Tennessee town gains national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher is arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
16) Jagged edge
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.
20) The Loving story
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and his fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. Later, the newlyweds were arrested, tried and convicted of the felony crime of miscegenation. Two young ACLU lawyers took on the Lovings case, fully aware of the challenges posed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor on June 12, 1967 and resulted in sixteen states being ordered to overturn their bans...
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