Abby Mann

The actor and the writer reminisce about working on both the Playhouse 90 and Stanley Kramer versions of "Judgment at Nuremberg."

Abby Mann discusses his Oscar-winning screenplay and his inspirations.

A celebration of Stanley Kramer's life and career, featuring interviews with Karen Sharpe, his widow, and screenwriter Abby Mann.

Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.

Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the Belleville High School volleyball team. Three days after her body was discovered, Brandley was arrested as the murderer. Jew Don Boney, a popular activist and Houston city council member, leads the fight to uncover the truth about the Ferguson murder. Mike DeGeurin, a Texas attorney, is brought in to act as the head defense attorney for Brandley, and is joined by a former minister, Jim McCloskey. The lawyers discover that not only is there a complete lack of evidence against Brandley, but the District Attorney, James Keeshan, has been strategizing with the presiding judge. After nine years in prison, three trials and a stay of execution that saved Brandley's life, justice finally prevails as Brandley is granted his freedom.

The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.

For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.

For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.

After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from an unscrupulous Dutch hitman, and bring Mob kingpin Tony Salducci to justice.

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)

Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.

Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.

Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

Молодой детектив нью-йоркской полиции на собственной шкуре узнает о правилах, по которым живет полицейское управление большого города. По роковой ошибке застрелив женщину-коллегу - тайного агента полиции, он сталкивается с попыткой управления скрыть обстоятельства произошедшего.

Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his loved ones.

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

Полицейский детектив Джо Леланд ведет расследование запутанного дела по убийству молодого гомосексуалиста. В ходе расследования он обнаруживает связь с должностной коррупцией в Нью-Йорке и оказывается в ловушке между рядом компромиссов и собственной честностью...

Место и время действия жестко ограничены; герои — пассажиры корабля — люди разных национальностей, представители разных слоев общества, и команда гигантского лайнера «Вера». Один из пассажиров философствующий карлик Глокен, дает лайнеру новое имя «Корабль дураков». Им предстоит совместно совершить рейс из порта Веракрус (Мексика) в Бремерхафен. Они «обречены на совместное путешествие», которое продлится несколько недель. Чужие друг другу люди, предстают неким символом человеческого сообщества, отягощенного пороками и низменными страстями, которые, в конечном счете, по мнению Портер, и сделали возможным приход к власти Гитлера.

Доктор Кларк нанимает пианистку Джин Хансен в качестве педагога по музыке для детей с проблемами психики. Возмущенная методами лечения детей, Джин начинает конфликтовать с доктором, попутно сближаясь с одним из юных пациентов. Спектакль на День Благодарения становится поворотной точкой во взаимоотношениях героев…

Умирающий магнат Альбрехт приглашает своего сына Вернера и его жену Йоанну, чтобы оставить ему в наследство строительную империю. Во время визита Йоанна узнает страшные подробности о прошлом этого семейства…

В Нюрнберге идет процесс над нацистскими преступниками. Слушаются дела юристов, служивших нацистскому режиму. Напряженная судебная драма сосредоточена вокруг судебного разбирательства под председательством главного судьи, во время которого главный защитник с помощью откровений одного из подсудимых осознает, что он совершает ошибку, выступая в защиту явных пособников нацизма.