Alan M. Dershowitz

Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
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A humorous and nostalgic documentary about an extraordinary baseball player who transcended ethnic and religious prejudice to become an American icon. (Cowboy Booking International)
The film profiles Jacob Mendelson, a practitioner of Jewish liturgical music who has dedicated his life to preserving the form's traditional vocal stylings. Mendelson's mother, who had bipolar disorder, was almost obsessed that her son become a cantor. The film reveals an interesting link to celebrity on the part of Mendelson's father: the older Mendelson once co-owned a truck with the father of Steven Spielberg.
Follows the life of Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, and examines the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe and its connection to the wave of international terrorism currently threatening the entire world.
A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." (imdb)
Obsession is a film about the threat of Radical Islam to Western civilization. Using unique footage from Arab television, it reveals an 'insider's view' of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination... (imdb)
A lurid tale of lawsuits and lawyers and America's obsession with both. To sue or not, that is the question. (alawyerwalksintoabar.com)
An explosive documentary, looking at the controversies surrounding the 2000 election and specifically focusing on the Florida recount.
William Kunstler was one of the most famous lawyers of the 20th century. The New York Times called him "the most hated and most loved lawyer in America." His clients included Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, Abbie Hoffman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Leonard Peltier.
About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.
Four teenagers participated in a backyard brawl which resulted in a death. The trial led to life without parole, even though the evidence against them was not clear-cut. Ten years have passed and they are still behind bars, though an appeal is pending.
This documentary takes an uncensored look at the life and work of film producer Harvey Weinstein. (imdb)
A political strategist juggling three clients questions whether or not to take the high road as the ugly side of his work begins to haunt him.
Before entire networks were built on populist personalities; before reality morphed into a TV genre; the masses fixated on a single, sociopathic star: controversial talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr.
O.J. Simpson takes viewers on a guided tour of the locales that served as the backdrop for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
Original intent is the judicial philosophy promoted by President George W. Bush and Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Originalists believe the US Constitution should be interpreted in the way the Founding Fathers understood it in 1789. Originial Intent: The Battle for America argues that the far right is using originalism as a cover to advance a radically conservative political agenda. (academicvideostore.com)
A sensitive and thoughtful exploration of the alien abduction phenomena told by some of those who experience it firsthand and the Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard psychiatrist who believes they are telling the truth. (blinddogfilms.com)
Pete Rose on Trial (2003) - TV Movie
Baseball's all-time hits leader, banned for life for allegedly betting on the sport, should be allowed induction at Cooperstown, the jury of ESPN's mock trial said after hearing three hours of jury deliberations at Harvard Law School. (imdb)
Looks into the nation's history touching upon close elections such as the 1960 Kennedy v. Nixon campaign, the attempt by Segregationist Third Party Candidate George Wallace to manipulate the electoral college in 1968 and the three other elections not won by popular vote prior to the 20th century. (callitdemocracy.com)
The Jewish People (2008) - TV Movie
This is the story of Jewish survival. From slavery to the loss of their homeland; from exile to anti-Semitism; from pogroms to near annihilation in the Holocaust, how did they endure while so many other communities have vanished? (twocatstv.com)
The film is based on the 2008 book by Vincent Bugliosi, former Los Angeles District Attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson and his "Family" for the Tate-LaBianca murders, also testified to the House = in 2008 on Bush's alleged crimes. The film documents Bugliosi as he presents to a UCLA law classroom his case that Bush should be prosecuted for the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers and 100,000 Iraqi civilians. (en.wikipedia.org)
Drawing on a treasure trove of interviews, Avrich shows how Churchill grew beyond the kind of friendship with individual British Jews to an unlikely obsession in becoming a supporter of Jewish causes--most notably being responsible for determining the future status of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. As a war leader and peacetime prime minister, this film examines the origins, implications, and results of Churchill's commitment to Jews. (sassywire.wordpress.com)
Noted law professor and author Alan Dershowitz explores the historical and ongoing controversy over the aims and policies of the state of Israel. (netflix)
Dubbed "The Cannibal Cop," Gilberto Valle was convicted in March 2013 of conspiring to kidnap and eat young women. Valle argued it was all a fantasy; the prosecution's narrative convinced jurors otherwise. (imdb)
A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. (imdb)
A look at the life and work of New York power broker Roy Cohn.