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Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free (2003)
Directed by Joe Berlinger
Documentary · 1h 05m
Each year in the United States, over 200,000 prisoners face a parole board that must make the difficult judgment of whether these convicted criminals are ready to gain their freedom and return to society. This documentary focuses on three inmates in Louisiana, Nevada, and Massachusetts with a range of chilling crimes - a father's murder by his troubled son, a crime of passion by a respected NASA scientist, and a shooting/robbery on the streets of Las Vegas. Incorporating interviews of key characters with extensive testimony footage and reenactment sequences that explore the life and crime of the inmate, the film vividly examines the conflicting needs of the victim, the criminal, and the community while testing our own notions of justice.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Joe Berlinger
- Writer
- Nat Segaloff, Gayle Kirschenbaum
Details
- Release date
- 2003-02-03
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- HBO, HBO Documentary Films