(Sorry if this is a repeat - I tried sending it once before...)
Several years ago, Professor Woodard, our Law Librarian, gave me the
okay to start a law-related video collection - and it's now grown to
over 200 movies. Alot of these are familiar to most people - movies
like A Few Good Men, Anatomy of a Murder, To Kill a Mockingbird, My
Cousin Vinny, etc. But I've also tried to include some that aren't
as well known, like Let Him Have It, 10 Rillington Place, M, and
Chattahoochee. The boundaries are a bit loose on what we'll consider
adding, so we have some that are mostly political (Advise and Consent),
or sociological (Boyz N The Hood), or are just great movies that only
have one or two legal scenes, like Fried Green Tomatoes. And, because
one of our favorite professors demands it, we always try to fit in
a John Wayne movie, so we have The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,
True Grit, and Rooster Cogburn. There are hundreds of movies out there
with lawyers as main characters, or courtroom scenes, or that deal
with justice in one way or another.
All of these are available for checkout to law students, faculty and
staff, and some of them are shown in class, such as A Man For All
Seasons, shown during the Jurisprudence class.
I wrote an article a few years ago for the Legal Reference Services
Q. about this (might be one of the ones you consulted), with a list
of possible movies, but I also have a more detailed listing of the
ones now in our collection that I'll be glad to send you.
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Sally G. Waters, Queen of Reference / "Dignity.
(waters@suvax1.stetson.edu) / Always dignity."
Stetson Univ. College of Law Library /
1401 61st St. S. / --Don Lockwood
St. Petersburg, FL 33707 /
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