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In the Name of the Father
Why this pick
A fiercely emotional wrongful-conviction drama in which a young man’s suffering inside a brutal system becomes inseparable from a determined legal fight for justice.
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MOVIE1995 2h 2m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Just Mercy
Why this pick
A compassionate, courtroom-centered story of an idealistic attorney confronting a dehumanizing justice system, with the same outrage and human stakes as Murder in the First.
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The Last Castle
Why this pick
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
The trial that brought down Alcatraz.
After being imprisoned in Alcatraz for petty theft, Henri Young leads a failed escape attempt from the infamous prison. As punishment for the doomed getaway, prison warden Milton Glenn places Young in solitary confinement for three years. When Young is finally released from his torturous ordeal, now a completely broken man, he kills an inmate and is charged with murder in the first degree. Although it initially appears to be an open-and-shut case, after Young's attorney James Stamphill learns the facts of Young's time in solitary confinement, he launches a daring defense that blames Alcatraz's inhumane conditions for driving Young to insanity and therefore causing him to kill.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Christian Slater
James Stamphill
Kevin Bacon
Henri Young
Gary Oldman
Associate Warden Glenn
Embeth Davidtz
Mary McCasslin
William H. Macy
William McNeil
Stephen Tobolowsky
Mr. Henkin
Brad Dourif
Byron Stamphill
R. Lee Ermey
Judge Clawson