Query: Courtroom films about prisons that don't discuss racism
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Dust Be My Destiny
Blood Oath (film)
Nirahua Hindustani
Jailor Gaari Abbayi
Libel (film)
Miracle in Cell No. 7
Murder in the First (film)
Nothing but the Truth (2008 American film)
Anybody's Nightmare
True Believer (1989 film)
In the Name of the Father (film)
Antigone (2019 film)
Sleepers
I Want to Live!
The Rack (1956 film)
Evidence from documents: Dust Be My Destiny: '''''Dust Be My Destiny''''' is a 1939 American drama film starring John Garfield as a man who gets into trouble after being sentenced to a work farm.
Joe Bell (John Garfield) becomes embittered after he is jailed for 16 months for something he did not do. Later, he gets into a fight with a crook (played by an uncredited Ward Bond) and is sentenced to a work farm for 90 days. There, he becomes friends with Mabel Alden (Priscilla Lane), which displeases Charles Garreth (Stanley Ridges), her stepfather and the farm's foreman. The two men fight, and Joe knocks Garreth out. Panicking, the young couple flee and get married, only to learn that Garreth has died and that Joe is wanted for his murder.
Blood Oath (film): The film is based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), such as the Laha massacre of 1942.
Nirahua Hindustani: The story is about a villager name Nirahu Yadav (Dinesh Lal Yadav) who in search of his dream girl reaches Mumbai. During his stay in the city he by mistake is framed as a serial killer and sentenced to hanging.
Jailor Gaari Abbayi: Now Bapineedu indicts Raja, also manipulates the court by bribing the people, and Raja has been given the death sentence. The rest of the story is about how Chakrapani protects his son Raja and whether they would be able to find the witness, Dr. K. K. Rao.
Libel (film): During the libel trial, Buckenham and Loddon tell their versions of wartime imprisonment and their escape.
Miracle in Cell No. 7: The film is about a mentally challenged man wrongfully imprisoned for murder, who builds friendships with the hardened criminals in his cell, who in return help him see his daughter again by smuggling her into the prison.
Murder in the First (film): '''''Murder in the First''''' is a 1995 American legal drama film, directed by Marc Rocco, written by Dan Gordon, and starring Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, Brad Dourif, William H. Macy, and R. Lee Ermey. It tells the alternate history of a petty criminal named Henri Young who is sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and later put on trial for murder in the first degree. This film was described on the poster as "the case that took down Alcatraz".
Nothing but the Truth (2008 American film): who in July 2005 was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative
Anybody's Nightmare: '''''Anybody's Nightmare''''' is a British television crime drama, based on the true story of the imprisonment of Sheila Bowler, that was broadcast on ITV on 7 October 2001. Patricia Routledge starred as Bowler, a 62-year-old music teacher who in 1993 was wrongly arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of her husband's 89-year-old aunt Florence Jackson, who in 1992 had drowned in the River Brede in East Sussex. The film chronicles the investigation and trial, and her subsequent four years' detention in Holloway Prison and Bullwood Hall Prison before her successful appeal in 1998.
True Believer (1989 film): Courtroom films: '''''True Believer''''' (also released as '''''Fighting Justice''''') is a 1989 American courtroom drama
about prisons: The news coverage led to a new trial, eventual acquittal and release of the prisoner from San Quentin's Death Row.
In the Name of the Father (film): Courtroom films: The courtroom scenes featuring Gareth Peirce were also heavily criticised as clearly straying from recorded events and established English legal practices since, as a solicitor and not a barrister, she would not have been able to appear in court at the time.
about prisons: During their time in prison Gerry and Giuseppe are approached by new inmate Joe McAndrew, who informs them that he was the real perpetrator of the bombing and had confessed this to the police, who in order to save face withhold this new information.
Antigone (2019 film): Courtroom films: Hémon quits school to organize rallies in support of Antigone; supporters pack the courtroom and disrupt the proceedings with cellphone ringtones (identical to Hémon's ringtone), and Antigone professes her heart's desire to help her brother.
about prisons: The prison officials discover the ploy; Antigone is arrested for aiding an escape and transferred to a women's prison.
Sleepers: prisons: They are sentenced to 18 months at the Wilkinson Home for Boys in Upstate New York.
Courtroom films: Michael, now an assistant district attorney, gets himself assigned to the case; he secretly intends to botch the prosecution and expose what the guards at Wilkinson's did.
I Want to Live!: Attorney Richard Tibrow is assigned to Barbara's case, and informs her that her alibi is meaningless unless Hank can corroborate it.
The Rack (1956 film): Hall has his sister-in-law's support, but his father initially refuses even to attend the trial