Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
A tangled web of issues is involved in electing a president. Edmund Muskie, former presidential press secretary Jody Powell, party officials and others discuss the role of political parties, the electoral college, and what to do if a president becomes disabled.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Contending with the constant attack on immigration law, five Mexican-American Immigration lawyers form a support group as they strive to help their clients obtain safety and status in the United States. Through their friendship and constant communication, these lawyers provide professional and emotional support for each other as they navigate the constant attacks on their clients and profession.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On Super Sunday, many states not only vote to choose a candidate for the White House, but also to pick two judges for the state’s Supreme Court, like in Arkansas. From clear conflicts of interest to proven instances of corruption, the elected judges have been mired in scandal. This film decrypts the failures of the American judicial system and shows the harrowing consequences of a justice for sale.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This documentary focuses on the stories of Midwest Native American lawyers, tribal judges, and their colleagues who work with Native nations, their citizens, and mainstream institutions to achieve sacred justice. These unseen role models strive daily to address and resolve unique and complicated historical, governmental, legal, judicial, and social welfare issues, which most often are rooted in discrimination, historical trauma, and cultural destruction....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Despite predicions of doom,legalization of cannabis has been a boon to Colorado financially with an expected one billion in sales by 2016 and $40 million in excise taxes to be placed in state coffers. There have been some problems with the roll out of the new law, but issues are being addressed through regulation and new ballot measures. A Reason TV production.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year....
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This film is set along the rivers of Oregon and follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. This story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying highly flammable products through treaty lands. In following...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This film traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America. Front line communities—Native peoples and communities of color—suffer the most immediate and severe consequences of the climate crisis, including impacts on physical and mental health as well as territorial desecration and displacement. This feature-length documentary follows...
17) Guns in America
Language
English
Description
Firearms are involved in more than half of suicides in the U.S. The gun suicide rate has reached an all-time high, and for the first time, the rate is higher among Black kids and teens than white ones, according to a recent analysis by Johns Hopkins University. William Brangham speaks with Dr. Emmy Betz, director of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, to learn more.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This edition of the Journal takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial elections could prejudice America’s courts as it revisits the 1999 Frontline special “Justice for Sale.” Afterward, Bill Moyers is joined by legal analyst and journalist Jeffrey Toobin to talk about the boost that has been given to the unwholesome relationship between big money and judicial elections by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United decision. The...
19) Dark Money
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dark Money examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide—to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A mock court case centered on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech is the basis for this program. Divided into two parts, Part One offers viewers an overview of the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights before revealing details in a case involving free speech, gambling, and advertising. Each side presents arguments and evidence, and viewers are tasked with determining the constitutionality of a law that bans advertising. In Part...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request