St. Louis University Law Library
Law and Film Collection

The Law Library has a special collection of law-related movies. Use of this special film collection is usually limited to law students, faculty, and staff, but exceptions will be considered. The films are located in a locked display cabinet on the first floor of the library; ask at the Circulation Desk for assistance. Movies may be checked out for one week.

Movies in the Collection  

10 Rillington Place (Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt)

12 Angry Men, 1957 (Henry Fonda, Jack Warden, Lee J. Cobb)

12 Angry Men , 1997 (Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott)

1776 (William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Blythe Danner)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon)

Absence of Malice (Paul Newman, Sally Field)

The Accused (Kelley McGillis, Jodie Foster)

Adam's Rib (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn)

Advise & Consent (Henry Fonda, Don Murray, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon)

Agnes of God (Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly)

Air Force One (Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close)

All My Sons , 1948 (Burt Lancaster, Edward G. Robinson)

All My Sons , 1986 (James Whitmore, Aidan Quinn)

All the King's Men (Broderick Crawford)

All the Pretty Horses (Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Henry Thomas)

Amistad (Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey)

Anatomy of a Murder (James Stewart, Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara)

And Justice for All (Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden)

And the Band Played On (Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Phil Collins, Richard Gere, Steve Martin)

And the Children Shall Lead (Danny Glover)

Andersonville Trial (Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Richard Basehart, Buddy Ebsen)

As Good As It Gets (Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Jr.)

Awakenings (Robert De Niro, Robin Williams)

Back Street (Susan Hayward, John Gavin)

Bananas (Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Howard Cosell)

Barbarians at the Gate (James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy)

A Beautiful Mind (Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany)

Bells of St. Mary's (Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman)

Best of Abbott and Costello , Volume 2 (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello)

Betrayed (Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard)

Black Robe (Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young)

Bleak House (Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Charlie Brooks, Anna Maxwell Martin)

Body in the Library (PBS Miss Marple mystery)

Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith)

Boycott (Jeffrey Wright, Iris Little-Thomas, Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder, Carmen Ejogo)

Breaker Morant (Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, John Waters)

Bulworth ( Warren Beatty, Halle Berry , Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, Isaiah Washington)

The Caine Mutiny (Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray)

Call It Murder (Humphrey Bogart)

Cape Fear, 1962 (Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen)

Cape Fear , 1991 (Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange)

Carlito's Way (Al Pacino)

Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet)

The Chamber (Gene Hackman, Chris O'Donnell, Faye Dunaway)

Chicago (Richard Gere, Renee Zellwegger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifa

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

Citizen Cohn (Woods, Joe Don Baker, Ed Flanders, Lee Grant)

City Hall (Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello)

A Civil Action (John Travolta, Robert Duvall, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan)

Clarence Darrow (Henry Fonda)

Class Action (Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)

The Client (Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, Mary-Louise Parker)

Compulsion (Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E. G. Marshall, Martin Milner)

Counsellor at Law (John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels)

Courage Under Fire (Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan)

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Gary Cooper, Rod Steiger, Ralph Bellamy)

Crash (Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Karina Arroyave, Brendan Fraser)

Crimson Tide (Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman)

Critical Care (James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft, Albert Brooks)

The Crucible (Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen)

A Cry in the Dark (Meryl Streep, Sam Neill)

Dead Man Walking (Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn)

Death of a Salesman , 1985 (Dustin Hoffman, Charles Durning, John Malkovich)

Defense of the Realm (Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott)

Desk Set Katherine Hepburn, Gig Young)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (Walter Huston)

Devil's Advocate (Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves)

Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood)

The Divorce of Lady X ( Lawrence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Merle Oberon)

Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson)

The Doctor (William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Elizabeth Perkins)

Double Jeopardy (Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd)

Eight Men Out (John Cusack, Charlie Sheen)

Enemy of the State (Will Smith, Gene Hackman)

Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room (Peter Coyote, Narrator)

Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts, Albert Finney)

Evelyn (Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies)

Eye for an Eye (Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris)

A Few Good Men (Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore)

The Field (Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker, Tom Berenger)

The Firm (Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jean Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter)

First Monday in October (Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh)

From the Hip (Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt)

Fury (Spencer Tracy)

Gandhi (Ben Kingsley)

The General's Daughter (John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III , James Woods)

Geronimo: An American Legend (Jason Partic, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, Wes Studi)

Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Natalie Wood)

The Ghosts of Mississippi (Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods)

Gideon's Trumpet (Henry Fonda, John Houseman, Jose Ferrer)

Gift of the Magi (Operatic version)

The Gingerbread Man (Kenneth Branagh, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Tom Berenger)

Girl Interrupted (Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie)

Grapes of Wrath (Henry Fonda, Doris Bowdon)

Grey's Anatomy (TV Series, Season 1)

Guilty by Suspicion (Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt)

Handmaid's Tale (Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Robert Duvall)

High Crimes (Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Amanda Peet)

The Hospital (George C. Scott, Diana Rigg)

House M.D. (TV Series; Season 1)

The Hurricane (Denzel Washington)

I am Sam (Senn Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning)

I Want to Live! (Susan Hayward)

I Will Fight No More...Forever (James Whitmore, Ned Romero, Sam Elliott)

In the Name of the Father (Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Terry George and Jim Sheridan)

Indictment: the McMartin Trial (James Woods, Sada Thompson, Mercedes Ruehl

Inherit the Wind , 1985 (Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly)

Inherit the Wind, 1999 (George C. Scott, Jack Lemmon)

The Insider (Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer)

An Innocent Man (Tom Selleck, F Murray Abraham)

Irreconcilable Differences (Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore)

JFK (Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman)

Jagged Edge (Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges)

Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise , Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renee Zellweger)

Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer, John Ireland, Leif Erickson)

John Q (Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Woods, Anne Heche)

Judgment at Nuremberg (Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Richard Widmark)

The Juror (Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin)

Just Cause (Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne)

King of the Pecos (John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Cy Kendall)

Kramer vs. Kramer (Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep)

Last Innocent Man (Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart)

Legal Eagles (Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah)

Legally Blonde (Reese Witherspoon, Holland Taylor, Luke Wilson)

A Lesson before Dying (Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Brent Jennings, Irma P. Hall)

Let Him Have It (Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell, Eileen Atkins, Clare Holman)

The Letter (Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson)

Liar Liar (Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney)

The Long Walk Home (Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg)

Losing Isaiah (Jessica Lange, Halle Berry )

M*A*S*H (Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman)

Malcolm X (Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett)

Man for All Seasons (Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles)

Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin)

Matewan (Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham)

Men of Honor (Robert De Niro , Cuba Gooding, Jr., Aunjanue Ellis, Charlize Theron)

The Merchant of Venice, 1973 (Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Michael Jayston)

The Merchant of Venice, 2004 (Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins)

Michael Collins (Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jude Law)

Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank)

Miracle on 34th Street (Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood)

Les Miserables (Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes)

Miss Evers' Boys (Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Ossie Davis)

Mississippi Burning (Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Jimmy Stewart)

Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)

Murder in the First (Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman)

Music Box (Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl)

Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935 (Charles Laughton, Clark Gable)

Mutiny on the Bounty, 1962 (Marlon Brando, Richard Harris)

My Cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne)

Necessary Parties (Alan Arkin)

The Negotiator (Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey)

Night and the City (Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange)

Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle )

Norma Rae (Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges , Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley)

North Country ( Charlize Theron , Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek)

Not Without My Daughter (Sally Field, Alfred Molina)

Notorious ( Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman)

Nuremberg (Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer)

Nuts (Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden)

Office Space (Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito)

The Onion Field (John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ronny Cox)

Other People's Money (Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller)

The Ox-Bow Incident (Henry Fonda)

The Paper Chase (Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman)

The Paradine Case (Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethyl Barrymore)

Patch Adams (Robin Williams, Daniel London, Peter Coyote)

Paths of Glory (Kirk Douglas )

The Pelican Brief (Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts)

Penalty Phase (Peter Strauss, Mitchell Ryan, Jonelle Allen, Melissa Gilbert)

The People vs. Larry Flynt (Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton)

Perry Mason: "The Case of the Lost Love" (Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, Jean Simmons)

Philadelphia (Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas)

Plain Truth (Mariska Hargitay, Alison Pill)

Physical Evidence (Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell)

Picture Bride (Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa)

A Place in the Sun ( Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor)

Presumed Guilty (Martin Sheen, Brendan Fraser)

Presumed Innocent (Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia)

Pretty Woman (Julia Roberts, Richard Gere)

Primal Fear (Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard)

Pudd'nhead Wilson (Ken Howard)

QBVII (Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Caron, John Gielgud)

The Rainmaker (Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, John Voight)

Rear Window (James Stewart, Grace Kelly)

Red Corner (Richard Gere)

Regarding Henry (Harrison Ford, Annette Bening)

Reversible Errors (William H. Macy, Tom Selleck)

Reversal of Fortune (Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close)

Roger and Me (Michael Moore)

Roots (LeVar Burton, Ben Vereen, Leslie Uggams, Ed Asner, Maya Angelou)

Rounders (Edward Norton, Matt Damon)

Runaway Jury (John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz)

Schindler's List (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley)

Separate but Equal (Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley)

Sergeant Ryker (Lee Marvin, Bradford Dillman, Peter Graves, Vera Miles)

Seven Hours to Judgment ( Beau Bridges , Ron Leibman, Julianne Phillips)

The Shawshank Redemption (Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins)

The Silence of the Lambs (Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn)

Silkwood (Meryl Streep, Kurt Russel, Cher , Craig T. Nelson)

Sleepers (Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt)

Sleeping with the Enemy (Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergen, Kevin Anderson)

Snow Falling on Cedars (Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow, Sam Shepard, Rick Yune)

A Soldier's Story (Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington)

Solid Gold Cadillac (Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas)

Soul Man (C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen)

Star Chamber (Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Sharon Gless)

Suspect ( Cher , Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney)

A Tale of Two Cities (Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone)

Tape (Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman)

The Thin Blue Line (Docudrama)

Three Faces of Eve (Joanne Woodward)

A Time to Kill (Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Gregory Peck, Brock Peters)

The Trial, 1962 (Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Romy Schneider)

The Trial, 1993 (Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards)

Trial by Jury (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt)

True Believer (James Woods, Robert Downey, Jr.)

The Verdict (Paul Newman, James Mason, Jack Warden)

Wag the Dog (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro)

Wall Street (Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah)

War of the Roses (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito)

The Winslow Boy (Robert Donat)

The Wire (Seasons 1-3)

Witness (Harrison Ford, Kelley McGillis, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov)

Witness for the Prosecution (Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power)

Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda)

Last Updated on September 12, 2007 by Joanne C. Vogel (vogeljc@slu.edu)