AFI's "10 Greatest Courtroom Drama Films: The 50 Nominees"

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.

(found at: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/10top10.aspx)

Send to Printer AFI's "10 Greatest Courtroom Drama Films: The 50 Nominees" 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. (found at: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/10top10.aspx)
	1.		Absence of Malice by Sydney Pollack
	2.		The Accused by Jonathan Kaplan
	3.		Adam's Rib by George Cukor
	4.		Advise and Consent by Otto Preminger
	5.		Amistad by Steven Spielberg
	6.		Anatomy of a Murder by Otto Preminger
	7.		...And Justice For All by Norman Jewison
	8.	?	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) by Fritz Lang
	9.		The Caine Mutiny by Edward Dmytryk
	10.		The Children's Hour by William Wyler
	11.		The Client by Joel Schumacher
	12.		Compulsion by Richard Fleischer
	13.		The Crucible by Nicholas Hytner
	14.		A Cry in the Dark by Fred Schepisi
	15.		Erin Brockovich
	16.		A Few Good Men (Special Edition) by Rob Reiner
	17.	?	Fury (1936) by Fritz Lang
	18.		Ghosts of Mississippi by Rob Reiner
	20.		I Confess (Director: Alfred Hitchcock) by Alfred Hitchcock
	21.		I Want to Live! by Robert Wise
	22.		In Cold Blood by Richard Brooks
	23.		Inherit the Wind
	24.		The Insider
	25.		Jagged Edge by Richard Marquand
	26.		Judgment at Nuremberg by Stanley Kramer
	27.		Kramer vs. Kramer by Robert Benton
	28.		Legally Blonde (Special Edition) by Robert Luketic
	29.	?	Libel! (1959) by Anthony Asquith
	30.	?	Madame X (1966) by David Lowell Rich
	31.		A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition) by Fred Zinnemann
	32.		My Cousin Vinny by Jonathan Lynn
	33.		The Onion Field by Harold Becker
	34.		Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick
	35.		The Pelican Brief by Alan J. Pakula
	36.		The People Vs. Larry Flynt by Milos Forman
	37.		Philadelphia by Jonathan Demme
	38.		Presumed Innocent by Alan J. Pakula
	39.		Primal Fear by Gregory Hoblit
	40.		John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition) by Francis Ford Coppola
	41.		Reversal of Fortune by Barbet Schroeder
	42.		A Soldier's Story by Norman Jewison
	43.		Suspect by Peter Yates
	44.		The Talk of the Town by George Stevens
	45.		A Time to Kill by Joel Schumacher
	46.		To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition) by Robert Mulligan
	47.		12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet
	48.		The Verdict by Sidney Lumet
	49.		Witness For the Prosecution by Billy Wilder
	50.		Young Mr. Lincoln - Criterion Collection by John Ford
	51.		The Young Philadelphians by Vincent Sherman
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