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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
1) The trial
Description
A disillusioned lawyer agrees to defend a young man facing the death penalty for first-degree murder, and searches for his own redemption at the same time.
Description
"Tim (Kwok) is a defence attorney with a heart of gold. Refusing to be simply a hired gun for his clients, he quits his high-powered job to become a prosecutor for the Justice Department. With the support of fiancee Megan and cop buddy Nam (Liu Kai Chi), Tim decides to start afresh. When he meets a handicapped piano teacher, Jing (Gwei), who urges him to help her. She is accusing her doctor, Zhou (Chang) a renowned surgeon of sexual harassment during...
4) 12 angry men
Series
Criterion collection volume 591
Description
Courtroom drama revolving around the trial of a boy accused of killing his father, where one man stands between him and capital punishment.
5) Family law
Description
Ariel Perelman is an attorney who represents clients in absentia. After he becomes married to a beautiful woman and has a son, he is faced with some life-changing decisions that involve his own father who is also a lawyer.
6) Misconduct
Description
"When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption."--www.imdb.com.
11) Two lives
Description
"As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children"--www.imdb.com.
12) Puncture
Description
"A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons"--from www.imdb.com.
13) Dark waters
Description
"A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution."--www.imdb.com.
14) The children act
Description
"As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle"--www.imdb.com.
15) The judge
Author
Description
"Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family"--www.imdb.com.
17) Darrow & Darrow
Description
"Claire Darrow is a single mom and a lawyer, who always wants to do right. When a close friend is convicted of stealing from an expensive jewelry store, it's up to Claire to bring justice."--www.imdb.com.
18) 55 steps
Description
"When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life"--From www.imdb.com.
19) The Collini case
Description
"2001, Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), a retired Italian worker, who had been living in Germany for 35 years, kills an elderly wealthy industrialist well known throughout the country. Collini's defense has been assigned to a public defender, the young lawyer Caspar Leinen (Elayas M'Barek), at his first major trial. However, Caspar had been a protegee of the murdered person, who he considered as a kind of father"--from www.imdb.com.
20) Marlene
Description
"At 14, Steven Truscott, was arrested and sentenced to hang for the murder of a 12 year old classmate. Marlene is an inspirational story of one woman's indomitable spirit and fight for truth and justice."--www.imdb.com.
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