AFI's "10 Greatest Courtroom Drama Films: 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

  2. 2.
    The Accused
    by Jonathan Kaplan

  3. 3.
    Adam's Rib

  4. 4.
    Advise and Consent
    by Otto Preminger

  5. 5.
    Amistad

  6. 6.
    Anatomy of a Murder

  7. 7.
    ...And Justice For All

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

  9. 9.
    The Caine Mutiny
    by Edward Dmytryk

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

  11. 11.
    The Client (Snap Case)
    by Joel Schumacher

  12. 12.
    Compulsion
    by Richard Fleischer

  13. 13.
    The Crucible

  14. 14.
    A Cry in the Dark

  15. 15.
    Erin Brockovich
    by Steven Soderbergh

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

  17. 17.
    Fury (1936)
    by Fritz Lang

  18. 18.
    Ghosts of Mississippi

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

  20. 20.
    I Want to Live!

  21. 21.
    In Cold Blood
    by Richard Brooks

  22. 22.
    Inherit the Wind
    by Stanley Kramer

  23. 23.
    The Insider
    by Michael Mann

  24. 24.
    Jagged Edge

  25. 25.
    Judgment at Nuremberg
    by Stanley Kramer

  26. 26.
    Kramer vs. Kramer

  27. 27.
    Legally Blonde
    by Robert Luketic

  28. 28.
    Libel! (1959)
    by Anthony Asquith

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

  30. 30.

  31. 31.
    My Cousin Vinny

  32. 32.
    The Onion Field
    by Harold Becker

  33. 33.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

  34. 34.
    The Pelican Brief

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

  36. 36.
    Philadelphia

  37. 37.
    Presumed Innocent
    by Alan J. Pakula

  38. 38.
    Primal Fear
    by Gregory Hoblit

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

  40. 40.
    Reversal of Fortune
    by Barbet Schroeder

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

  42. 42.
    Suspect

  43. 43.
    The Talk of the Town

  44. 44.
    A Time to Kill
    by Joel Schumacher

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

  46. 46.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

  47. 47.
    The Verdict

  48. 48.
    Witness For the Prosecution

  49. 49.
    Young Mr. Lincoln: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Ford

  50. 50.
    The Young Philadelphians
    by Vincent Sherman

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