 | A Man for All Seasons
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.14 A masterpiece about the patron saint of lawyers and one of the the greatest motion pictures ever made.
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 | Witness For the Prosecution
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.44 The best trial on film, with the ultimate multiple surprise ending. Filled with matchless acting directed by Billy Wilder.
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 | Anatomy of a Murder
Buy new: $19.94 / Used from: $13.29 Stewart at his best in a courtroom.
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 | The Paper Chase
Buy new: $5.49 / Used from: $4.95 It gives us Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, one of the greatest characters of film.
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 | Perry Mason - Season One, Vols. 1 & 2
Buy new: $79.99 / Used from: $52.97 Not a movie, but the first and best TV courtroom drama series. Who every lawyer wants to be.
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 | Gideon's Trumpet
Buy used from: $10.60 Brings a landmark Supreme Court case to life.
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 | Young Mr. Lincoln - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $24.97 The lawyer's lawyer.
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 | Separate But Equal
Buy used from: $3.49 A nice look at the inner workings of the Supreme Court.
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 | Judgment at Nuremberg
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $6.00 It says a lot about the responsibility of judges.
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 | Nicholas and Alexandra
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $10.46 No courtroom, but much to say about civil liberties and the dangers of their denial.
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 | Follow That Dream
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.74 Yes, Elvis. The courtroom scene is wonderful as Elvis does battle with the evil Miss Claypool.
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 | Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.53 Yes, Santa. the courtroom scene is a classic. The Judge Harper is wonderful to watch.
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 | Greyfriars Bobby
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.72 A dog wins his trial, and all true too.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $13.98 A classic courtroom drama and more.
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 | Bleak House
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $28.00 A Dickens story built around a suit in the High Court of Chancery in Victorian England. Shows the sorry state of English justice at the time. An excellent and fast moving TV mini-series.
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 | The War of the Roses
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $2.00 The true sprit of domestic litigation.
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 | 12 Angry Men
Buy used from: $6.08 Dated, but still a classic.
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 | Rumpole of the Bailey - The Complete Series
Buy new: $89.99 / Used from: $49.95 A crusty British barrister represents his clients in criminal trials to the utmost.
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 | Reversal of Fortune
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $2.97 Jeremy Irons is super in this film that focuses on a famous appeal.
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 | The Verdict
Buy used from: $38.95 A moody courtroom drama about a medical malpractice trial in Boston and a down-and-out plaintiff's lawyer played by Paul Newman fighting a ruthless and powerful defense team headed by James Mason.
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 | Amistad
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.78 The true story of captured Africans' appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams is a real treat.
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 | Marked Woman
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.00 A 1937 treasure with the great Betty Davis manipulating the legal system for her mob boss with Humphrey Bogart as the prosecutor. True fun and a real trip to the era.
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 | Murder of Mary Phagan/Double Cassette
Buy used from: $22.50 This TV film brings the the famous 1910s Atlanta trail to life.
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 | Breaker Morant
Buy used from: $5.25 A truly great film about the abuse of the law.
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 | The Rainmaker
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.65 Brings us behind the scenes of a health insurance case Memphis. Defense lawyers and insurance executives will not like it. Much of it was filmed in the historic Shelby County Courthouse, perhaps the grandest courthouse in America.
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 | Inherit the Wind
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.74 Based on the famous Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee.
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 | Nuremberg
Buy used from: $0.99 Brings the great war crimes trial to life.
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 | Cromwell
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.49 Includes the trial of Charles I. Alec Guinness steals the film as the unlucky king.
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 | Richard III
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.09 The horrors of a world without law updated to the 1930s.
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 | The Lion in Winter
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.45 A look at the later life of "the father of the common law."
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 | Executive Suite (1954)
Buy used from: $2.93 No lawyers. No courts. Nevertheless, a must for those into the corporate world and corporate law. Proves the boardroom can be as much a forum for advocacy as the courtroom and criminals in suits are as dangerous as those on the streets, and all this before Enron. An engrossing drama too. I hope it comes to DVD soon.
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 | Anne of The Thousand Days
Buy used from: $4.50 Shows how the power and symbolism of the law has been twisted for personal and political ends.
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 | Captain Blood
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.99 Yes, a pirate. You will meet perhaps the most infamous judge in history, Judge George Jeffreys as he ruthlessly puts down suspected enemies of James II. Later pirates led by Captain Blood "sign articles." These codes provided that crew members received payment from captured treasure in predetermined amounts for loss of specified body parts in furtherance of their plundering.
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