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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 115 min.
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Plot: Filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes.
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Cast: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: An investigation of the wrongful death of Carlos DeLuna.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Peter Gilbert and Steve James.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Evidence ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Just how fallible is the process of law? To what extent can fate intervene to set a murderer free, or send an innocent man to the electric chair?
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Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz, Philip Bourneuf, Shepperd Strudwick. Directed by Fritz Lang.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: Truman Capote travels to Kansas to research what will become his most celebrated book.
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Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr.. Directed by Bennett Miller.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Entertainment ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: A convicted killer is sentenced to death and when th date is set for his execution, he asks a nun to be his spiritual advisor.
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Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky. Directed by Tim Robbins.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Evidence |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: A compelling look inside America's prisons, highlighting one man's unlikely and historic actions against the system.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Katy Chevigny and Kerstin Johnson.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Criminal Procedure |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: Based on a true story, an unstable ex-con committed two cruel and senseless murders that resulted in his execution by firing squad.
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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach. Directed by Lawrence Schiller.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Sentencing ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 92 min. B&W
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Plot: A newspaper editor attempts to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
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Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart. Directed by Howard Hawks.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Media ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 160 min. B&W
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Plot: An overly aggressive district attorney sends an innocent man to the chair,and is forced to resign and defend criminals/An army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief through Mexico.
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Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix. Directed by Lewis Allen and Don Siegel.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
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Cast: Jason Burkett, Werner Herzog, Michael Perry. Directed by Werner Herzog.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: On the outskirts of a small town sits an empty casino, waiting for the customers the constructing of the new railroad will bring. When a man is murdered the local officials come to run the casino owner out of town.
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Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ernest Borgnine. Directed by Nicholas Ray.
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Categories: Western ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A prisoner facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl calls in a law professor to help prove his innocence.
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Cast: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ruby Dee, Ed Harris. Directed by Arne Glimcher.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: A renowned civil rights defense attorney works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
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Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, Brie Larsen. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Drama ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A young lawyer is assigned to the clemency case of a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death.
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Cast: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher, Jack Thompson. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
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Categories: Women ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: In the 1940's South, an African-American is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner.
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Cast: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall. Directed by Joseph Sargent.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Advocacy ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A true-life drama about a simple-minded British teenager who befriends a group of gangsters, becomes implicated in the murder of a policeman, and ends up on death row.
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Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell, Eileen Atkins, Clare Holman, Michael Elphick, Mark McGann, Tom Courtney. Directed by Peter Medak.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: A respected professor and anti-death penalty activist is charged with a brutal murder.
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Cast: Kate Winslet, Cleo King, Constance Jones, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney. Directed by Alan Parker.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Evidence ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A racist prison guard falls in love with the African-American wife of an executed prisoner.
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Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Peter Boyle. Directed by Marc Forster.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Racism ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Filmmakers assert that a former death-row inmate who was spared the death penalty was actually guilty, and an innocent man was sent to prison.
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Cast: Dexter Hammett, Joseph Alex, Jason Patrick. Directed by Christopher Rech & Brandon Kimber.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A producer-director is selected to serve on the jury for a murder trial. Believing the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime, he takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Cast: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Donald Calthrop, Edward Chapman. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Jury ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min. B&W
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Plot: A barrister defends a beautiful woman accused of murdering her husband in order to marry a lover.
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Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.
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Cast: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Christopher Fulford. Directed by Adrian Shergold.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Biography ∙ Sentencing |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: An up-and-coming lawyer in the county prosecutor's office becomes a suspect in the murder of a fellow prosecutor.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia, Greta Scacchi, Raul Julia, Paul Winfield, John Spencer. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: An American attorney in Beijing finds himself accused and arrested for the brutal murder of a beautiful woman, and discovers the Chinese court systems presume guilt.
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Cast: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford. Directed by John Avnet.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Drama ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: Two years after three friends vacation in Malaysia, the two who returned to America learn that the one who stayed behind to do research was arrested for drug trafficking. They must return to serve a three year prison sentences or he will be put to death.
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Cast: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ming Lee. Directed by Joseph Ruben.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 172 min.
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Plot: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
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Cast: William Macy, Tom Selleck, Monica Potter, Felicity Huffman, James Rebhorn, Shemar Moore, Glenn Plummer, Ron Canada. Directed by Mike Robe.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: In 1920 two Italian immigrants are condemned to death for their political beliefs after being falsely accused of a robbery and murder.
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Cast: Gian Maria Volonte, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello, Geoffrey Keen, Milo O'Shea. Directed by Giulliano Montaldo.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge joins a secret organization of judges that hires a hitman to kill other criminals who have similarly gotten off the hook.
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Cast: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yapher Kotto, Sharon Gless. Directed by Peter Hyams.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama ∙ Death Penalty |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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