Bryan Stevenson
2021True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
Peter W. Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt
Bryan Stevenson
An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for more than three decades has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks
John Maggio
Ava DuVernay, Spike Lee
This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic development photographing everyday Americans, through his evolution as a novelist and groundbreaking filmmaker.
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
Just Mercy
Destin Daniel Cretton
Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Just Mercy
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Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny
Anthony Amsterdam, George W. Bush
In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study the issue and interviews activists, scholars and prisoners, while examining the history of the American death penalty. As Ryan's time in office comes to an end, he must decide what steps to take to reform the judicial system.
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