Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Examines the partnership between cinematographer and murderer Eadweard Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford.

When a law student and lieutenant during WWII is captured and asked to defend an African American soldier who is falsly accused of a crime he finds that the trial is a front for secret plans brewing in the prison camp.

An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another crime 20 years later. Part I: In the turbulent 1960s, young...

"Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial" -- "A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts,...

"In 1895, an Italian seamstress in New York was accused of killing the man who had raped her, promised to marry her, and was about to abandon her. Following a sensational trial conducted in a language she could not understand, Maria Barbella, at the age of twenty-two, became the first woman sentenced to die in the newly invented electric chair. Idanna Pucci tells this story with immediacy, passion and authority that no other author could have mustered,...

Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.

In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years...

A graphic novel account of the lives and deaths of Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were accused of murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, tried, convicted, and executed, in a case that caused an uproar around the world due to the questionable circumstances surrounding the case.