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A Murder in the Park (2014)
Anthony Porter was convicted of a double-murder in Chicago in 1982 and placed on death row… In 1999, within 48 hours of being executed, a Northwestern University Journalism class under the guidance of Professor David Protess of the Innocence Project, produced new evidence & a video confession from another man that exonerated Porter of the…
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Injustice (2001)
Terrific UK documentary by Ken Faro that explores the cases of four suspicious deaths of young black males in police custody in Great Britain in the 1990’s: Joy Gardner (28 July 1993), Shiji Lapite (16 December 1994), Brian Douglas (3 May 1995), and Ibrahima Sey (16 March 1996) … and how their families tried to…
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Kids for Cash (2013)
Powerful Robert May documentary that tells the horrific ‘abuse of power’ story of Pennsylvania Judge’s Mark Ciavarella & Michael Conahan and how they manipulated their privileged positions to personally profit from placing juveniles in prison on mostly minor offences …
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The Central Park Five (2012)
Brilliantly disturbing Ken Burns documentary that examines the notorious 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman jogger in Central Park… After spending between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime…
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The Confessions (2010)
Eight men charged. Five confessions. But only one DNA match. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn’t commit? … PBS’s ‘FRONTLINE’ goes inside the incredible saga of the ‘Norfolk Four’ — a case that cracks open the justice system to reveal almost everything that goes wrong when innocent people get…
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West of Memphis (2012)
With unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense team, never-before-seen or heard personal accounts from those involved, acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson examines the tragic case of the ‘West Memphis Three’ trying to come to terms with how the American legal system could of failed them so badly…
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
This final version chronicles the last years in prison and eventual release of the three men accused of brutally murdering three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. The men were released after entering an Alford plea on August 19, 2011, allowing them to assert their innocence while acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence to…
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West Memphis Three (2011)
In 1993, the bodies of three young boys were discovered in a muddy creek that led to a major drainage canal at Robin Hood Hills near West Memphis, Arkansas – three young teenagers: Damien Echols , Jessie Misskelley, Jr. and Jason Baldwin were charged and quickly convicted of the crimes based on the coerced confession…
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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)
In 1931, two white women stepped off the train in Paint Rock, Alabama and proclaimed to have been raped by nine black teenagers on the train… the soon to be known ‘Scottsboro Boys’ were convicted of the crime and sentenced to death… one of the greatest miscarriages of American Justice that inspired the US Civil…
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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
1996 documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of three teenage boys who came to be known as the West Memphis Three in West Memphis, Arkansas…This documentary of a gruesome triple murder in West Memphis, Arkansas and the subsequent trials of three suspects, takes a hard look at both the…
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Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
2001 Academy Award Winner for ‘Best Documentary’ film, has it all: an innocent black teenager on trial for capital murder; a corrupt, lazy police force willing to do and say anything to convict this young man; court-room drama that equals some of the best Hollywood fare and a brilliant defence attorney, Patrick McGiunness, who’s willing…