DVD Collection

Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen. In French with optional English subtitles. Originally issued as a motion picture in France in 1959.
Writer, Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay.

This film is the documentary about the first ten years of the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the great battles it has had to fight over the past decade: for survival, for respect and for time. The testimony of the current and former president of the Tribunal: judges Antonio Cassese, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Claude Jorda and Theodor Meron; Chief Prosecutors: Richard Goldstone, Louise Arbour and Carla del Ponte; and many other players, document this exciting, important and successful experiment in international criminal justice. Through library footage from the courtrooms and from crime scenes, the film reconstructs the crucial and most dramatic moments - victims testimonies, confessions, forensic evidence, investigations, indictments, judgments - that have marked the decade in which the Tribunal managed not only to survive but to succeed against all odds.

This DVD tells the history of The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) and explains how its reporters go about their daily business of covering all the major courts and reporting all the most important cases which change or clarify the law. It consists of five short films, as well as reference documents available in pdf format.

Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the 1839 journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland. When the ship, La Amistad, is seized, these captives are brought to the United States where they are charged with murder and await their fate in prison. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt. Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: David Franzoni
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, David Paymer, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan Skarsgård.

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. Based on a play and true story. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford
Cast: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Rod Mullinar, Charles Tingwell.

On 6 August 1992, British journalists from ITN and the Guardian unveiled to the world the existence of camps for non-Serb civilians in the area of Prijedor in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina. Shocking images of emaciated inmates circled the planet in just a few days and shook the conscience of humanity. Barely two months later, a process was set in motion which would change the face of international criminal justice forever. Through interviews, investigative news footage and courtroom testimonies, Crimes before the ICTY: Prijedor depicts the discovery of the camps and the subsequent process that led to the establishment of the first international criminal Tribunal since WWII, as well as the judicial outcome of the crimes committed in this Bosnian town. In English, French, German and Serbo-Croatian with subtitles in English.
Director/Writer: Petar Finci

In early 1992, several months after ethnic tensions had burst into terrible conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, tensions reached a boiling point in Višegrad. Muslims began to be systematically attacked, tortured or killed resulting in a massive population shift that meant the near eradication of the Muslim population in the area. The investigations into these crimes led to the prosecution of direct perpetrators. Through first-hand witness testimonies, Trial and Appeals Chambers judgements and interviews with the protagonists, Crimes before the ICTY: Višegrad tells the gripping story of the judicial response to the tide of ethnic cleansing that swept the municipality. In English, Bosnian Serbian and Croatian with subtitles in English.
Director/Writer: Steve Coulson
Narrators: Anna Dil, Aida Hasanbegovic

Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis. Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Frontline, April 1, 2004.
Director, Writer: Greg Barker
Narrator: Will Lyman

American judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career. Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.
Director: Stanley Kramer
Writer: Abby Mann
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner, Werner Klemperer, Virginia Christine.

The film relates the perspective of victims and survivors of the Mumbai, India terrorist attack of November 26, 2008. It depicts the events of 60 hours broadcast live to the world via cell phones and Internet, text and Twitter, showing how social media became a silent witness and simultaneously transformed news as it happened. Originally broadcast as an episode of the television series Secrets of the dead.
Producer/Director: Victoria Potts

No Fire Zone is an explicit and horrifying expose of the final months of the 26-year-long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it. Using unseen footage recorded by both the victims and perpetrators on mobile phones and small cameras, the film meticulously exposes some of the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity in recent times and becomes direct evidence of a war that was supposed to be conducted in secret. Made in 2013, it was updated and expanded in 2015 with important new evidence. Public performance rights included.
Director: Callum Macrae
Narrator: Rufus Sewell

On the night of November 26, 2008, ten men armed with guns and grenades launched an assault on Mumbai that left 166 dead. David Coleman Headley, a Lashkar/ISI operative had been casing the city for two years. He was an American citizen. Frontline and Sebastian Rotella team up to investigate the circumstances behind Headley's rise from heroin dealer and U.S. government informant to master plotter of the 2008 attack on Mumbai. Originally broadcast as segments of the television program Frontline on Nov. 22, 2011.

The film explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for the incredible feat of catching a dictator 25 years after his rise to power. Crucial to the legal case against Pinochet were the testimonies of victims of the crimes of the his regime. Hundreds of Chileans, relatives of the "disappeared," ex-prisoners who suffered torture and interrogation in secret prisons, traveled to Madrid to testify. The film movingly incorporates their stories and also follows the workings of the British legal system that ensued.
Director: Patricio Guzman

This documentary film explores the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from jurisprudential and human rights perspectives. The film is comprised of interviews with numerous attorneys, human rights activists, journalists, NGOs, victims' groups, and others to determine what the Tribunal has achieved and how it is perceived globally and in the Balkans.
Producers: June Vutrano, Erin Lovall.

This documentary depicts the Tribunal's historic role in the prosecution and adjudication of wartime sexual violence. It includes testimonies from witnesses and survivors of sexual violence, who bravely gave evidence at trials, and interviews with former and current ICTY professionals who worked on these cases. In English, French, German and Serbo-Croatian with subtitles in English.
Director: Rob Barsony
Writers: Rob Barsony, Petar Finci
Narrator: Lisa Biersay

This documentary depicts the crucial role played by victims and witnesses in the prosecution of those alleged to be responsible for crimes committed during the 1990s on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The film portrays the courage it takes to come to the ICTY to testify, and explores the five witnesses’ motives for doing so. With the participation of ICTY judges and staff, as well as footage from actual ICTY testimonies, Through Their Eyes: Witnesses to Justice provides a lasting reminder of the contributions made by witnesses to international justice and the importance of live testimony in an international judicial context. In English, Bosnian, Croatian or Serbian.
Director: Steve Coulson
Writers: Peter Finci, Steve Coulson

The Trial of Ratko Mladić provides haunting insights into a war criminal's motives, and the genocide he commanded his troops to carry out - as well as an intimate look at the victims left behind, who remain haunted by what their families endured. It tells an epic story of justice, accountability and a country trying to escape its bloody past. FRONTLINE goes inside the historic five-year trial, with unprecedented, behind-the-scenes access to the prosecution and defense teams, as well as to witnesses from both sides who came to give evidence.
Directors: Henry Singer, Rob Miller