Just Mercy

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 25 Dec 2019 · English

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

The Hill

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 18 Aug 2023 · English

The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 16 Sept 2005 · English

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Inherit the Wind

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 29 May 1999 · English

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Shirley

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 15 Mar 2024 · English

Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

The Rainmaker

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 18 Nov 1997 · English

Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.

Bridge of Spies

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 15 Oct 2015 · English

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

On the Basis of Sex

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 25 Dec 2018 · English

Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

Oranges and Sunshine

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 8 Oct 2010 · English

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

Inherit the Wind

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 7 Jul 1960 · English

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

The Eichmann Show

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 20 Jan 2015 · English

The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.

Interview

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 13 Jul 2007 · English

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.