Criminal Justice System Movies

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a...

Progressive Amputation is introduced as a new form of punishment for particularly heinous crimes, in this pitch-black social satire by Matt Richards.

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated...

A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.

A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a...

An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for...

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers...

By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...

The Nature of the Beast explores the life and case of a woman, Bonnie Jean Foreshaw, who was subjected to years of abuse, as a child and in three...

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced...

Edwin Debrow Jr. murdered a cab driver when he was 12. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

The Miami-Dade Community Mental Health Project comes to life in this documentary, following a team of dedicated public servants working through the...

The impact of mass incarceration is explored through an annual charity trip that takes children to visit their imprisoned mothers.

A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.

Directed by Oscar-nominated and NAACP Image Award winner David Massey, this dynamic documentary explores why so many unarmed black people have been...

“The Vanishing Trial” looks into “trial penalty,” the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence a person...

Chattam is a 2011 action Telugu film directed by P. A. Arun Prasad. Natti Kumar and Rama Satyanarayana are jointly producing this movie. Jagapathi...