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Publisher
Thirteen/WNET New York
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the court's reaction to state and federal legislation on Bill of Rights freedoms, with special attention to the explosion of civil rights cases from the early 1940s to the present.
Publisher
Thirteen/WNET New York
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues before the court from the aftermath of the Civil War through the 1930s. This was a period of unprecedented economic growth as the nation industrialized, but was also a time of unregulated work conditions - the court found itself squarely in the middle of what was almost class warfare.
3) Marshall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer who became the first African American to be Solicitor General and a Supreme Court justice.
Publisher
Thirteen/WNET New York
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Details the court from the election of President Richard Nixon - who appointed 4 new justices in less than two years - through to the more recent Court of today. During this period one man put his stamp on the institution and solidified and enhanced the power of the Court in the modern area - William H. Rehnquist.
6) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Details the biography and career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Publisher
Thirteen/WNET New York
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the creation of the court and follows it through the brink of the Civil War, paying particular attention to the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court - John Marshall - and to his successor, Roger Taney.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As her personal life falls apart, a judge has to decide a difficult case where religious parents of a 17-year-old boy suffering from leukemia refuse to allow the hospital to perform a life-saving blood transfusion.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
11) Confirmation
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearings are being held, a woman comes out alleging that she was sexually harassed by Thomas.
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