HCCC Libraries: Criminal Justice: DVDs & Streaming Videos

Black Death in Dixie
This short film is an indictment of the capital punishment system in the United States. Bryan Stevenson

(law, New York Univ.; director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama) exposes the inequities and racial biases

that lurk in the criminal justice system, most frighteningly in capital cases.
The Central Park Five
In 1989, a jogger was brutally raped in New York's Central Park. Five young men of color were arrested and,

after prolonged interrogations without benefit of legal counsel, forced to confess. All of them were tried, convicted,

and served time before another man in 2002 claimed responsibility.
Eyewitness Testimony: Psychological Aspects
This three-section program weighs the reliability of eyewitness testimony and what this reveals about the nature

of memory itself
Juvenile Justice: A Fred Friendly Seminar
Moderator Charles Ogletree, of Harvard Law School, casts 13 experts as figures in a hypothetical scenario

involving two families, four teens, and a sequence of violent crimes culminating in a murder.
Rethinking the Death Penalty
ABC News correspondent John Donvan traces the history of the death penalty in the U.S. since 1935 while

capturing the views of George W. Bush and Illinois governor George Ryan. Then, Gerald Kogan, former

chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, and Dudley Sharp, director of Justice for All, join anchor Chris

Wallace to discuss the use of DNA evidence to overturn death penalty convictions.

Criminal Justice