This documentary tells the dramatic and compelling story of seven men who were exonerated after being imprisoned for decades - released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.
Directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell, "Conviction" (2010) tells the true story of a woman's fight to prover her brother's innocence.
Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of robbing and murdering a white tourist in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dramatizations & Feature Films
To Kill a Mockingbird by screenplay by Horton Foote
Call Number: DVD PN 440
ISBN: 9781417053681
Publication Date: 2005
Film adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" starring Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, Estelle Evans, Mary Badham, and Phillip Alford.
Call Number: Available on DVD from the Kalamazoo Public Library
ISBN: 0792849221
Publication Date: 2011, 1957
Film adaptation of Reginald Rose's play "12 Angry Men." Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Robert Webber.
Call Number: Available on DVD from the Kalamazoo Public Library
Publication Date: 1958 [2012]
Film adaptation of Robert Traver's novel, "Anatomy of a Murder". Based on a true story, this case took place in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Discussion guide for film and book available here: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal/lm_Anatomy_of_a_Murder_Reading_Guide_246094_7.pdf
Court-TV's 2006 film version features the stories of six people who were exonerated after being sentenced to death. The cast inclues Susan Saradon, Danny Glover and Aidan Quinn.
Lifetime Movie Network's 2010 original movie about Calvin Willis, who was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary after more than 21 years of wrongful incarceration, and his relationship with his advocate Janet Gregory.
This Peabody and American Bar Association award winning film focuses on the aggresive police interrogation of Michael Crowe, 14-year-old, who was ultimately coerced into a false confession for murdering his 12-year-old sister.