# AFI's 10 greatest courtroom dramas

The courtroom drama category of the American Film Institute's 10 Top 10 (2008).

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- Oct 26, 2020 · amy_matinee
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## Top 10

1. **To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)** (47 · ▲50 ▼3) — Number one: Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.
2. **12 Angry Men (1957)** (38 · ▲44 ▼6) — One juror against eleven in a single room.
3. **Witness for the Prosecution (1957)** (31 · ▲38 ▼7) — Billy Wilder adapts Agatha Christie's twist.
4. **Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)** (29 · ▲39 ▼10) — Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep fight for custody.
5. **The Verdict (1982)** (28 · ▲32 ▼4) — Paul Newman as a washed-up lawyer with one last case.
6. **A Few Good Men (1992)** (26 · ▲31 ▼5) — Tom Cruise against Jack Nicholson in a military court.
7. **Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)** (24 · ▲34 ▼10) — Stanley Kramer and the trials of Nazi judges.
8. **A Cry in the Dark (1988)** (16 · ▲22 ▼6) — Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain and the dingo case.
9. **In Cold Blood (1967)** (13 · ▲22 ▼9) — Richard Brooks adapts Truman Capote's true crime book.
10. **Anatomy of a Murder (1959)** (11 · ▲26 ▼15) — Otto Preminger and James Stewart, with a Duke Ellington score.

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