Best Wrongful Conviction
"Defendant" is a 2017 South Korean legal thriller television series that aired on the KBS2 network. The show stars Ji Sung as Park Jung-woo, a prosecutor who awakens on death row with no memory of how he got there. Convicted of murdering his wife, he must investigate his own case from prison to prov...
The Guardians is a 2019 legal thriller by John Grisham about wrongful convictions and the American death-penalty system. Its protagonist, Cullen Post, is a lawyer and Episcopal minister working for Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit that represents prisoners believed to be innocent. The central...
West of Memphis is a 2012 documentary film directed by Amy Berg and produced with the involvement of Damien Echols and Lorri Davis, among others. It examines the convictions of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley for the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and prese...
Kathleen Zellner is an American post-conviction attorney based in Illinois who specializes in representing clients who have been wrongfully convicted of serious crimes. Since founding her law firm in 1991, she has successfully secured the exoneration and release of more than a dozen individuals, oft...
American Violet is a 2008 American drama directed by Tim Disney and inspired by the case of Regina Kelly in Hearne, Texas. Nicole Beharie plays Dee Roberts, a young Black mother arrested during a mass drug raid who refuses a plea bargain and challenges the prosecution with help from civil-rights att...
A 2019 HBO documentary series reexamining the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, building on the widespread public attention generated by Sarah Koenig's Serial podcast.
Innocent is a British television drama series created by Chris Lang and Matt Arlidge that aired on ITV in 2018, focusing on a man wrongly accused of murdering his wife.
In Justice is a 2006 ABC legal drama by Michelle and Robert King, following a San Francisco group that investigates wrongful convictions.
Behind Stone Walls is a 1932 independent American drama directed by Frank Strayer, depicting the harsh conditions inside a state penitentiary through the story of a warden's son imprisoned for manslaughter.
2010 American film starring Hilary Swank as Betty Anne Waters, a real woman who earned a law degree specifically to overturn her brother's wrongful murder conviction.
