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Feminists repelled by the apostle Paul’s sexist views will enjoy the six-part Italian series based loosely on the life of Italy’s first woman lawyer Lidia Poët. As played by Matilda DeAngelis, she is a self-confident woman with a clever mind a knowledge of advances in criminology, such as the value of fingerprints, unknown to the …
A pregnant professor attends the trial of another African French woman accused of killing her infant daughter.
Joan of Arc’s trial is set forth by Theodore Dreyer as a parallel to that of Jesus of Nazareth, both being Innocents suffering at the hands of evil men.
White Elliott, raising his mixed race granddaughter alone after his wife dies, thinks he is not racist, & yet he keeps her apart from her black relatives, which leads to trouble in court.
The docudrama of the Nuremberg Trials, presided over by Justice Jackson, is the story of how the infamous Nazi top echelon were at last brought to justice.