Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan M. Dershowitz
Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
A humorous and nostalgic documentary about an extraordinary baseball player who transcended ethnic and religious prejudice to become an American icon. (Cowboy Booking International)
A Cantor\
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.
Ever Again
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.
Lake of Fire
A graphic documentary on both sides of the abortion debate. (imdb)
Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." (imdb)
Obsession: Radical Islam\
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 Lawyer Walks Into a Bar...
A lurid tale of lawsuits and lawyers and America's obsession with both. To sue or not, that is the question. (alawyerwalksintoabar.com)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
An explosive documentary, looking at the controversies surrounding the 2000 election and specifically focusing on the Florida recount.
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
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.
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.
Reckless Indifference
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.
The Harvey Weinstein Project
This documentary takes an uncensored look at the life and work of film producer Harvey Weinstein. (imdb)
Knife Fight
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.
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
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.
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OJ Simpson: Monster or Myth?
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: The Battle for America
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)
Touched
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
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)
Call It Democracy
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
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 Prosecution of an American President
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)
An Unlikely Obsession
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)
The Case for Israel: Democracy\
Noted law professor and author Alan Dershowitz explores the historical and ongoing controversy over the aims and policies of the state of Israel. (netflix)
Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop
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)
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Prosecuting Evil
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.
The Accountant of Auschwitz
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)
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
A look at the life and work of New York power broker Roy Cohn.