To dommere, tilsyneladende uden nogen forbindelse, bliver dræbt på samme dag. En ung lovende jurastuderende skriver en rapport, som efter hendes mening opklarer mordene. Rapporten kommer i gale hænder, og hun befinder sig i et net af intriger og korruption – som forgrener sig til regeringsmedlemmer på højeste plan.
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Der er altid to sandheder. Den sandhed, vi ser. Og den, der ligger bag den. Den ene ser ud til at være virkelig. Den anden er det. Sgt. Nathan West tager seks elitesoldater på en øvelse i den colombianske jungle. Kun to vender tilbage i live og nægter at udtale sig til Julia Osborne fra militærpolitiet. Specialagent Tom Hardy, som selv er trænet af West og hader ham indædt, sættes på sagen og langsomt trænger Osborne og Hardy ned i et sirligt net af løgn og fortielser om hvad der virkelig skete i junglen.
Historien om Ruth Bader Ginsberg, som kæmper for lige rettigheder for mænd og kvinder og hvad hun måtte overkomme for at blive USA's første kvindelige højesteretsdommer.
I en alder af 84 har den amerikanske højesteretsdommer Ruth Bader Ginsburg oparbejdet en imponerende juridisk arv, samtidig med at hun er blevet et uventet popkulturikon. Men uden en endelig Ginsburg-biografi har historien om den lille, rolige krigers vej til USA's højesteret været stort set ukendt, selv for nogle af hendes største fans – indtil nu. RBG er en øjenåbnende dokumentar, der udforsker Ginsburgs ekstraordinære liv, karriere og enorme betydning for kvinders ligestilling i USA i dag.
The true story of Trish Weir who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation.
A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.
This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that changed history.
"Renee" tells the story of Renee Richards' battle to enter the 1977 U.S. Open as the first transgender tennis player. Simultaneously, it follows her today as she struggles to cope with a life of contradictions and personal conflict. Through interviews with tennis legends, family, friends and experts from the transgender field, a story of perseverance, breakthrough and hardship unfolds.
A portrait of Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” whose unwanted pregnancy led to the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide, Roe v. Wade. The documentary unravels the mysteries closely guarded by McCorvey throughout her life.
Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education — where it was ruled that "in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place" — via never-before-heard stories from people directly responsible for, and greatly affected by, the original case.
The pro-life movement has been around as long as Roe V Wade, who are they, what do they do? Are they effective? This documentary goes into the deep underpinnings of major national lobbyist groups to find out why after 46 years Babies Are Still Murdered Here?
In the intensive care station, the young doctor, Miranda Schwarz, is feeling morally conflicted about having to save her tormentor's life.
Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.