This documentary chronicles the groundbreaking career of attorney Johnnie Cochran, from his beginnings as a Los Angeles city deputy attorney to his high-profile cases defending celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and O.J. Simpson. Interviews and archival footage reveals how Cochran also championed the civil rights of ordinary Americans and helped pave the way for other African American lawyers to make their mark.
This documentary chronicles the groundbreaking career of attorney Johnnie Cochran, from his beginnings as a Los Angeles city deputy attorney to his high-profile cases defending celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and O.J. Simpson. Interviews and archival footage reveals how Cochran also championed the civil rights of ordinary Americans and helped pave the way for other African American lawyers to make their mark.
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.
When Juan Catalan is arrested for a murder he insists he didn't commit, he builds his case for innocence around unexpected raw footage.
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
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 fractured and divided nation.
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.