Unlike the theatrical film JUDGMENT AT NUREMBURG (1961), which focused on the sheer magnitude of Nazi perfidy, this painstaking, made-for-television drama envelops viewers in the legal maneuvers of the historic war crimes tribunal. Justice Robert Jackson (Alec Baldwin) accepts the challenge of prosecuting the surviving architects of the Third Reich, but hates the Washington politics he must manipulate in order to do so. The married Jackson is also distracted by Elsie Douglas (Jill Hennessy), who accompanies him to Germany as his secretary but is also his mistress. In accord with the Allied powers, Jackson chooses to prosecute two dozen representatives of Germany's mi...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
179 mins