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Rule of Law

A newly-disabled outlaw and country lawyer in Tennessee lead a class action lawsuit that affects the rights of 55 million people.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 47 minutes | Relevance score: 18.20

Sisters in Law

Winner of the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival, SISTERS IN LAW is the story of two women in Cameroon determined to change their community.

Women Make Movies | 2006 | 104 minutes | Relevance score: 17.38

Crossing the Andes, Ep. 05 - My Mother-in-Law Stayed at Home

Stef Biemans looks at the role of the mother-in-law. Because Latinos tend to talk about them rather a lot. Are mother-in-laws still as picky and meddlesome as Latino men would have us believe?

Pragda Films | 2018 | 25 minutes | Relevance score: 16.98

Dicing with Death, Ep. 03 - Nicaragua: In the Name of the Law

On the Caribbean with the Miskito fishermen, you see a spark in people's eyes. A spark that must be kept quiet to avoid a dynamite explosion, which could blow up an entire village.

Pragda Films | 2018 | 52 minutes | Relevance score: 15.34

The Judge

Peabody Award-winner and Emmy nominated THE JUDGE provides rare insight into Shari’a law, an often-misunderstood legal framework for Muslims, told through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s religious courts.

Women Make Movies | 2017 | 81 minutes | Relevance score: 4.09

Status Pending

Contending with the constant attack on immigrants and Immigration Law, the lawyers on the front-lines are feeling burned out and disillusioned. This film takes us into the lives and work of five members of an informal support group comprised of Mexican-American, solo-practitioners who got their start at the same high-intensity law firm in Los Angeles.

Collective Eye Films | 2021 | 28 minutes | Relevance score: 4.09

Damages

Behind the scenes at Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder, a leading law firm specializing in personal injury cases.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 69 minutes | Relevance score: 3.68

Litigating Disaster

December 3, 1984. Bhopal, India. The worst chemical disaster of all time. How has Union Carbide manipulated the US and Indian legal systems for 20 years to avoid facing justice?

Icarus Films | 2004 | 52 minutes | Relevance score: 3.68

The Return

After California's "Three Strikes" law was amended, thousands of lifers were suddenly freed, but re-entry presented problems for the lifers, their families and their communities.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 83 minutes | Relevance score: 3.68

Advocate

Lea Tsemel, an Israeli-Jewish lawyer who has represented Palestinian political prisoners for nearly 50 years, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 108 minutes | Relevance score: 3.27