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Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Crime reporter Mike Reese has a nose for news, and an eager hand under the table in return for spinning the truth in favor of moneyed perps. But after he tries to cash in on a story involving a maid accused of a society murder, Reese ultimately finds the courage to reveal the truth and make amends for his tainted past.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
70 year old Grace Mallard refuses to believe her son Andrew is guilty of murder. 11 years ago Andrew was put away for life for the murder of a local jeweler. Over the course of a decade, Grace and her devastated family doggedly fight on to set him free. Along the way they recruit investigative journalist Colleen Egan, charismatic MP John Quigley and top QC Malcolm McCusker to help them. All are convinced that Andrew never got a fair trial. Together...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After spending 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence, thrusting him back into a world he no longer knows. As he struggles to adapt to his new life, his return will reignite the fears of a small town and threaten to shatter his family's fragile peace. Daniel's alleged crime divided a community. His freedom could tear it in half.
10) Just cause
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A Harvard Law School professor reopens a murder investigation on behalf of a death row inmate who claims he was forced by a sinister lawman to confess to a crime he didn't commit. On the surface, it seems to be a straightforward case of the prisoner's guilt or innocence. But nothing really lies on the surface of this mystery, climaxing in the Florida swamplands.
12) Stillwater
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
13) Tormento
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father's mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, Carlo, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn't commit, the couple's domestic tranquility is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.
14) We'll meet again
Publisher
Allumination Filmworks
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Paroled after having spent six years in prison for the murder of her husband, socialite Molly Lasch vows to prove her innocence and track down the real killer - at any cost. With the help of a high school friend, investigative reporter Fran Simmons, Molly slowly begins to remember the events of that terrible night. But as they inch closer to uncovering the truth, Fran and Molly are drawn deeper into a web of lies, obsession, conspiracy and murder...
16) Brian Banks
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim...
17) Witch hunt
Publisher
Your Half Media Group
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Documents the injustice in the legal system of a small town in Bakersfield, California, and shows what happens when power is allowed to exist when civil rights are jeopardized. Here the district attorney has been in office for more than 25 years and has convicted dozens of innocent working-class people, sending some of them to prison for decades before they were exonerated.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A reporter provides eyewitness testimony that helps sentence a small-time loser to the electric chair for murder. When the reporter himself is fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger - but will anyone believe him?
19) JCVD
Publisher
Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible for the crime. As the events are played from different perspectives,...
20) The Hurricane
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
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