The Best Courtrooms & Verdicts Documentaries

True Crime - 38 free documentaries about courtrooms & verdicts.

Start with We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years (23 min, Veritasium), then Causing a Natural Disaster to Party: The Case of James Scott (25 min, VICE). All 38 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on courtrooms & verdicts is Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

• We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years (23 min, Veritasium)
• Causing a Natural Disaster to Party: The Case of James Scott | Overlooked (25 min, VICE)
• Trapped: Cash Bail In America (63 min, Real Stories)
• The Plea | Investigating Plea Bargains in the U.S. Justice System (84 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Legal Marijuana in America: The New Green Rush (44 min, National Geographic)
• The Lethal Drug Trial That Turned Men Into Elephants (58 min, Real Stories)
• Movie Star's Body Is Found Buried In The Desert | Prosecutors (100 min, Real Crime)
• A Life Lost to Prison: Sentenced to Life Since Childhood (82 min, Real Stories)
• This Mom Faced Court After Helping Her Sick Daughter Die | Panorama (29 min, Real Stories)
• Evicting Squatters from a Multi-Million Pound Office Block | The Enforcers Pt. 1 (46 min, Free Documentary)
• Sentenced to 13 Years for Two Joints | WEEDIQUETTE (44 min, VICE)
• The O.J. Verdict | Inside the Simpson Trial & Its Impact on the U.S. (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Prescribing Death: The Fatal Truth About Painkillers (55 min, Real Crime)
• Corrupt Texas Judge Started a Hit List: You Won't Believe Who Was On It (57 min, Real Crime)
• How The Legal System Gets Away With Murder | Trained in the Ways of Men (96 min, Real Crime)
• Poisonous Pact Leads to Attorney's Tragic Demise (47 min, Real Crime)
• Justice System Fails To Protect Woman With Deadly Stalker (45 min, Real Crime)
• Kids Behind Bars: Housed With Adult Prisoners, Denied Fair Trials & Sentenced To Death (96 min, Real Crime)
• The Briefs (46 min, Real Stories)
• Mysterious Murder Of A Car Salesman Reveals Deadly Conspiracy | Prosecutors (100 min, Real Crime)
• How This Gangster Outsmarted the Entire Justice System (88 min, Real Crime)
• The Gruesome Trial of the Pendle Hill Witches (59 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Never Judge A Home By Its Facade | Remarkable Living (22 min, CNA Insider)
• The Global North taken to court - Who pays for the climate catastrophe? (52 min, DW Documentary)
• The Murder Trial That Exposed Britain's Flawed Justice System | Crime & Punishment (47 min, Real Stories)
• He Faked Madness in Court: How He Covered Up His Wife's Murder (Step By Step) (95 min, Real Crime)
• A Lawyer For Those Who Can’t Speak Up For Themselves: My Pro Bono Work | Extraordinary People (22 min, CNA Insider)
• What Actually Happened In The Trial of Louise Woodward (48 min, Real Crime)
• Conviction: Women Fighting for Change in the Justice System (78 min, Real Stories)
• Lawyers Representing Criminals | the Briefs S2 EP1 (46 min, Real Crime)
• How Justice Really Works | The Briefs S1 EP2 (47 min, Real Crime)
• Donald Trump: Will His Legal Case Create Civil War? (26 min, Real Stories)
• Uncovering Britain's Justice System Crisis | Crime and Punishment (46 min, Real Stories)
• Legal Battle: Defense Lawyers Fight To Represent Underdogs (140 min, Real Stories)
• Most Terrifying Female Serial Killer: The Legal Circus Behind Aileen Wuornos (176 min, Real Crime)
• Was The Eric Garner Incident Warning About Government Brutality? (99 min, Real Stories)
• How The Oscar Pistorius Trial Captivated A Nation (59 min, Real Stories)
• God Save the Gun? - Great Britain's (IL)LEGAL Weapons Problem (29 min, ENDEVR)

Top-Rated Books About Courtrooms & Verdicts

1. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis - View on Amazon
3. A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr - View on Amazon
4. The Brethren by Bob Woodward - View on Amazon