login

The Self-Access Centre - English - TV Documentaries - Law

Please note that documentaries are available to view on the computers in the university. If you see you can view the film online. This material is not available on computers that are outside of the university.

When you have finished watching a documentary, please let us know if you liked it by clicking the Like button.

	Title	Author	Subcategory	Subtitles	Length	Rating
The seventh of Harvard professor Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the issue of individual rights and the freedom to choose. If our place in society is determined by where we best fit, doesn't that eliminate personal choice? What if I am best suited to do one kind of work, but I want to do another? 1	Justice - Freedom vs Fit	BBC 4	Law	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Comparing the merits of Shakespeare and The Simpsons to explore John Stuart Mill's theory. 2	Justice - How to Measure Pleasure.	BBC	Law	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second in a series of lectures drawn from Harvard professor Michael Sandel's famous undergraduate course on justice, he introduces the British utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, with reference to an infamous 19th century legal case from Victorian England - the shipwreck of the Mignonette. 3	Justice - The Case for Cannibalism	BBC	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The sixth of Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the Greek philosopher Aristotle and the rules of golf. 4	Justice - The Good Citizen	BBC 4	Law	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Is it necessary to reason about the good life in order to decide what rights people have? 5	Justice - The Good Life	BBC	Law	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Professor Michael Sandel presents the first in a series of lectures from his Harvard undergraduate course in Political Philosophy. He explores the morality of murder and asks whether there can ever be a case for killing. 6	Justice - The Moral Side of Murder	BBC 4	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Sandel asks if it is fair to tax the rich to help the poor. 7	Justice - What's a Fair Start?	BBC	Law	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
They are the UK's most powerful arbiters of justice and now, for the first time, four of the Justices of the Supreme Court talk frankly and openly about the nature of justice and how they make their decisions. 8	Justice -The Highest Court in the Land: Justice Makers	BBC	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Harvard professor Michael Sandel examines Immanuel Kant's stringent theory of morality. 9	Justice: - A Lesson in Lying	BBC	Law	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
From the Royal Institution in London, Harvard professor Michael Sandel hosts a discussion to explore fairness in public policy and the Big Society. 10	Justice: Fairness and the Big Society	BBC 4	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Louis Theroux joins the Philadelphia Police Department patrolling the most dangerous part of one of the most violent cities in America. 11	Law and Disorder in Philadelphia : Louis Theroux	BBC	Law		45 mins	Like (0 likes)
As part of BBC 4's Justice season, this documentary which chronicles the brilliant life and tragic fate of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the former head of the UN mission to Baghdad. 12	Storyville - Fight to Save the World: Sergio	BBC 4	Law	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jacksonville, Florida, May 2000. Mary Ann Stephens is shot in the head at point blank range in front of her husband. Two hours later, a 15-year-old black American, Brenton Butler, is arrested walking down a nearby street. Jean-Xavier De Lestrade's Academy 13	Storyville - Murder on a Sunday Morning	BBC 4	Law		111 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary about Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor. 14	Storyville - Prosecutor	BBC 4	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Errol Morris broke cinematic ground with The Thin Blue Line, establishing a new genre in the non-fiction feature by creating a fascinating reconstruction and investigation of a brutal and senseless murder. 15	Storyville - The Thin Blue Line	Errol Morris	Law		103 mins	Like (0 likes)
English common law, with its emphasis on the role of the jury, set a standard of fairness that has influenced legal systems across the world. Many of the features that characterise today's courts were in place by as early as the 14th century. 16	The Strange Case of the Law: Part 01 - Laying Down the Law	BBC	Law		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Many of the rights and freedoms we take for granted today were forged during the turbulent 17th and 18th centuries, when courageous men used the law to challenge tyranny and the abuse of power. 17	The Strange Case of the Law: part 02 - The Pursuit of Liberty	BBC	Law		59 mins	Like (1 likes)
Timeshift lifts the veil on the taboo that is corporal punishment. What it reveals is a fascinating history spanning religion, the justice system, sex and education. Today it is a subject that is almost impossible to discuss in public, but it's not that long since corporal punishment was a routine part of life. Surprising and enlightening, the programme invites us to leave our preconceptions at the door so that we may better understand how corporal punishment came to be so important for so long 18	Timeshift - Crime and Punishment - 08 The Story of Corporal Punishment	BBC	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Timeshift digs into the archive to trace the extraordinary story of the ultimate sanction. At the beginning of the 19th century you could still be hanged in Britain for offences such as stealing a sheep or shooting a rabbit. Even children as young as seven were sent to the gallows. The last hanging in this country took place as recently as 1964. By opting for a dispassionate history rather than staging the usual polarised debate, the programme breaks new ground with its fascinating attention to detail, such as the protocols of the public execution or the 'science' of hanging. With contributions from both sides of the argument, it provides an essential guide to a subject that still divides us. 19	Timeshift - Crime and Punishment - 09 The Story of Capital Punishment	BBC	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
It is almost exactly 30 years since the BBC's Rough Justice team began investigating miscarriages of justice. The programme can claim to have achieved the overturning of the convictions of 18 people in 13 separate cases, continuing sporadically for over 25 years until it was finally axed in November 2007. Timeshift looks at the creation of this extraordinary series and reveals what a shock to the system it was. Featuring contributions from many of those involved, it asks how it was that a television programme took it upon itself to question one of the oldest judicial systems in the world. This documentary is also an opportunity to look at how much television and journalism have changed since Rough Justice was first commissioned. The programme's makers were hired with an open-ended brief that would be almost impossible to repeat today. It may only be thirty years ago, but this is a glimpse into a bygone era. 20	Timeshift - Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice	BBC	Law	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith's film examines, through one man's case, the reality of Mexico's judicial system, where the accused is presumed guilty. 21	True Stories - Murder in Mexico: Presumed Guilty	Roberto Hernandez Geoffrey Smith	Law	English	89 mins	Like (0 likes)

0.41491508483887

Director: Dr Christine Hoffmann
UCL Centre for Languages & International Education, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5454 Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 8667 Copyright � 1999-2012 UCL