A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.

The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyers.

The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

The Kerrigan family should still be living at 3 Highview Crescent Cooloroo, in total obscurity. They were terrible houses on worthless land. The compulsory acquisition should go through without a hitch ... right? ... wrong. How Darryl and his small time suburban lawyer mate, assisted by a new friend, retired QC Lawrence Hammil ended up in the High Court of Australia, is the story told in The Castle.

Presents a fictionalized account of a war crimes trial of four eminent Nazi judges at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. Provides insight into Nazi brutality and raises questions about freedom of choice, loyalty to one's country, and responsibility to mankind

To win back her Harvard-bound former beau, Valley girl Elle Woods enrolls at the university's law school -- and ends up excelling in the legal arts.

When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down. The story is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929.

The story of Andrew Beckett, a young lawyer who is battling with AIDS who is suddenly fired by his prestigious firm. He hires street smart, personal injury attorney, Joe Miller to represent him as he sues the firm for wrongful termination.

In the 1930's in outback Australia, three young Aboriginal girls are snatched from their mothers' arms in Jigalong, Western Australia and sent to a remote settlement at Moore River. Distanced from their mothers and forced to adapt to a strange new world, the girls attempt the impossible and embark on a daring escape. What ensues is an epic journey which tests the girls' will to survive and their hope of finding the rabbit-proof fence to guide them home.

True story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.

Errol Morris's examination of a real-life murder case went beyond reportage and actually helped overturn the judgement of a Texan capital case - Randall Adams, the young drifter accused of murder for the shooting of a policeman, was released soon after the film was screened, having served eleven years in jail and four on death row.

In a small Alabama town in the thirties, a softly-spoken lawyer defends a black sharecropper against a charge of raping a white woman