Darby Shaw, uma estudante de Direito de Nova Orleans, descobre uma trama que envolve o assassinato de dois membros da Suprema Corte na mesma noite e prepara um dossiê contendo suas opiniões e estudos sobre os crimes. Ela chega à uma surpreendente conclusão e, nas mãos erradas, as informações daquele documento significariam uma revolta na política do país. Assim, quando Darby vê que sua vida corre perigo e tem apenas ao seu lado Gray Grantham, um jornalista, ele passa a ajudá-la a tentar elucidar a trama por completo.
Richard (Joel Edgerton) e Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), um casal interracial, são presos em junho de 1958 por terem se casado. Jogados na prisão e exilados do estado onde viviam, eles lutam pelo matrimônio e pelo direito de voltar para casa como uma família.
A jovem advogada Ruth Bader Ginsburg se une ao marido Marty para apresentar um caso inovador ao Tribunal de Apelações dos EUA e derrubar um século de discriminação de gênero.
Após um grupo de soldados norte-americanos desaparecer em plena selva colombiana, um oficial do departamento anti-drogas do governo americano (John Travolta) é designado para investigar o caso. Entre os desaparecidos estão um respeitado instrutor do exército (Samuel L. Jackson) e ainda diversos cadetes em treinamento.
Um retrato íntimo da improvável estrela do rock, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Com acesso sem precedentes, são exploradas suas primeiras batalhas jurídicas e como elas mudaram o mundo para as mulheres.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
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.
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.
Em uma das decisões mais polarizadas da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos, Roe v. Wade, está uma mulher tão polêmica quanto o próprio caso. Norma McCorvey, também conhecida como "Jane Roe", revela a verdade por trás de sua história em um momento crítico no debate sobre o aborto nos EUA.
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.
In the intensive care station, the young doctor, Miranda Schwarz, is feeling morally conflicted about having to save her tormentor's life.
"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.
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.
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?