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The Law Library has an interesting collection of feature films that deal with attorneys or legal themes. Many are available in both DVD and VHS formats. The collection includes newer films as well as some classics. The video tapes are cataloged in the U.A. Libraries catalog, and can be checked out for three days by law students or for one week by law faculty. Please bring your University of Akron ID to check-out the video tapes.

The video tapes can also be viewed in the Law Library. Law students and faculty can reserve a group study room that has a VCR and monitor.
Please stop at the Circulation Desk to check out video tapes or use Law Library's VCR equipment.

How to search for the Law Library's feature films

  1. Perform a subject search in the UA Libraries Catalog by selecting SUBJECT and entering
  2. Then click on LIMIT and restrict your search to those located at LAW.
  3. This will present you with a list of feature film titles, their format (VHS or DVD) and the call number. The Law Library's video tapes have a call number beginning with
  4. Ask for the the item by call number at the Circulation/Reserve desk.

Here is a selection of video tapes that may be of interest

CLASSICS

Adam's Rib: 1949
Metro Goldwyn Myer; screen play by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin; produced by Lawrence Weingarten; directed by George Cukor.
LAW RECORDING# 331

Anatomy of a Murder: 1959
screenplay by Wendell Mayes; produced and directed by Otto Preminger; Carlyle Productions, Inc.
LAW RECORDING #338

The Caine mutiny Columbia Pictures Corporation: 1954
a Stanley Kramer production; directed by Edward Dmytryk.
LAW RECORDING #E801

Inherit the Wind: 1960
MGM/UA Home Video; produced and director, Stanley Kramer; screenplay by Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith.
LAW RECORDING #

Judgment at Nuremberg: 1961
Roxlom Films, Incc.; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer; written by Abby Mann.
LAW RECORDING #

To Kill a Mockingbird: 1963
screenplay, Horton Foote; produced by Alan J. Pakula; directed by Robert Mulligan; a Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions picture.
LAW RECORDING #376

12 Angry Men: 1957
United Artists pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; story and screenplay by Reginald Rose; produced by Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose; directed by Sidney Lumet.
LAW RECORDING #E3967

CONTEMPORARY

Absence of Malice: 1997
Columbia Pictures presents a Sydney Pollack film; a Mirage Enterprises production; written by Kurt Luedtke; produced and directed by Sydney Pollack
LAW RECORDING #327

All the President's Men: 1976
Warner Bros.,a Wildwood Enterprises production; a Robert Redford-Alan J. Pakula film; produced by Walter Coblenz; directed by Alan J. Burbank, screenplay, William Goldman.
LAW RECORDING# E65632

And justice for All: 1979
Columbia Pictures; Valerie Curtin, Bary Levinson, writers; Norman Jewison, Patrick J. Palmer, produces; Norman Jewison, director.
LAW RECORDING #387

A Civil Action: 1999
Touchstone Pictures and Paramount Pictures present a Wildwood Enterprises production produced by Scott Rudin, Robert Redford, Rachel Pfeffer; screenplay by Steven Zaillian ; directed by Steven Zaillian.
LAW RECORDING #278

Class Action: 1991
Twentieth Century Fox; an Interscope Communications production.
LAW RECORDING #359

The Firm: 1999
Paramount Pictures presents a John Davis/Scott Rudin/Mirage production.
LAW RECORDING #346

Mississippi Burning: 1999
an Orion Pictures release; an Alan Parker Film.
LAW RECORDING #

My Cousine Vinny: 1992
20th Century Fox; produced by Dale Launer and Paul Schiff; directed by Jonathan Lynn.
LAW RECORDING #357

Presumed Innocent: 1998
A Mirage production; an Alan J. Pakula film.
LAW RECORDING #396

The Rainmaker: 1997
Constellation Films presents a Douglas/Reuther production in association with American Zoetrope ; screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola ; produced by Michael Douglas, Steven Reuther and Fred Fuchs; directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
LAW RECORDING #369

The Verdict: 2002,c1982
Twentieth-Century-Fox; produced by Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown; directed by Sidney Lumet; written by David Mamet.
LAW RECORDING #379

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