AFI - Greatest Courtroom Dramas - The 50 Nominees

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The American Film Institute’s official 50 nominees for the Top 10 Courtroom Dramas of All-Time (to be announced June 17, 2008)

"AFI defines “courtroom drama” as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film’s narrative."

"Innocent until proven guilty. These four words inspire stories where the outcome may be the difference between life and death. The drama inherent in the theatre of a courtroom—the accused enters, prosecution and defense state their case, and a jury deliberates—all build to the moment when a verdict is read."

Check out all the entries from "AFI’s Top 10" here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55322/tagged_as?name=afi+top+10

In alphabetical order.

  1. 1.
    Absence of Malice
    by Sydney Pollack

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  2. 2.
    The Accused
    by Jonathan Kaplan

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  3. 3.
    Adam's Rib
    by George Cukor

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  4. 4.
    Advise and Consent
    by Otto Preminger

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  5. 5.
    Amistad
    by Steven Spielberg

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  6. 6.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Otto Preminger

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  7. 7.
    ...And Justice For All
    by Norman Jewison

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  8. 8.
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
    by Fritz Lang

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  9. 9.
    The Caine Mutiny
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  10. 10.
    The Children's Hour
    by William Wyler

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  11. 11.
    The Client
    by Joel Schumacher

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  12. 12.
    Compulsion
    by Richard Fleischer

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  13. 13.
    The Crucible
    by Nicholas Hytner

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  14. 14.
    A Cry in the Dark
    by Fred Schepisi

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  15. 15.
    Erin Brockovich

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  16. 16.
    A Few Good Men (Special Edition)
    by Rob Reiner

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  17. 17.
    Fury (1936)
    by Fritz Lang

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  18. 18.
    Ghosts of Mississippi
    by Rob Reiner

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  19. 19.
    I Confess (Director: Alfred Hitchcock)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  20. 20.
    I Want to Live!
    by Robert Wise

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  21. 21.
    In Cold Blood
    by Richard Brooks

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  22. 22.
    Inherit the Wind

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  23. 23.
    The Insider

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  24. 24.
    Jagged Edge
    by Richard Marquand

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  25. 25.
    Judgment at Nuremberg
    by Stanley Kramer

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  26. 26.
    Kramer vs. Kramer
    by Robert Benton

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  27. 27.
    Legally Blonde (Special Edition)
    by Robert Luketic

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  28. 28.
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    Libel! (1959)

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  29. 29.
    Madame X (1966)
    by David Lowell Rich

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  30. 30.
    A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  31. 31.
    My Cousin Vinny
    by Jonathan Lynn

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  32. 32.
    The Onion Field
    by Harold Becker

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  33. 33.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  34. 34.
    The Pelican Brief
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  35. 35.
    The People Vs. Larry Flynt
    by Milos Forman

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  36. 36.
    Philadelphia
    by Jonathan Demme

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  37. 37.
    Presumed Innocent
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  38. 38.
    Primal Fear
    by Gregory Hoblit

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  39. 39.
    John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  40. 40.
    Reversal of Fortune
    by Barbet Schroeder

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  41. 41.
    A Soldier's Story
    by Norman Jewison

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  42. 42.
    Suspect
    by Peter Yates

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  43. 43.
    The Talk of the Town
    by George Stevens

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  44. 44.
    A Time to Kill
    by Joel Schumacher

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  45. 45.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Mulligan

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  46. 46.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

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  47. 47.
    The Verdict
    by Sidney Lumet

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  48. 48.
    Witness For the Prosecution
    by Billy Wilder

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  49. 49.
    Young Mr. Lincoln - Criterion Collection
    by John Ford

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  50. 50.
    The Young Philadelphians
    by Vincent Sherman

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