Tag: courtroom

  • Defending Your Life

    Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing

    A painter, believed to be dead, returns to make allegations that a gallery owner is selling counterfeits of his work. Later, the artist is murdered.

  • My Cousin Vinny

    Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who’s a lawyer – Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it’s a real shock – for him and the Deep South!

  • Joh’s Jury

    Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss

    On the set of a popular daytime soap opera ‘Mile High’, actress Kris Buckner is being forced off by co-star Mark Stratton. When she says that she’ll ‘kill him before she leaves the show’, she makes herself the prime suspect when Stratton is murdered by someone poisoning him. As an old friend, Perry Mason comes to the help of Kris and agrees to defend her. Meanwhile Ken goes in search of information with the help of fan of the show.

  • In the Name of the Father

    A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.

  • Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

    The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

    A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor

    The alleged suicide of a gubernatorial candidate triggers a series of mysterious deaths leading to the governor’s mansion, and “Wild” Bill McKenzie, a friend of Perry Mason, is on the case.

  • Indictment: The McMartin Trial

    The McMartin family’s lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty “expert” videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.