Drama Pack - Against The Wall / Tiger Warsaw / Split Decisions / The Whistle Blower / Darrow DVD

Against The Wall: It was a time of protest and war. The whole world was in turmoil and nowhere more so than behind the bleak grey walls of America's toughest prison - the monument to misery and violence they called Attica. This is a terrifying story of courage and conviction amid the chaos and horror of America's bloodiest ever prison uprising directed by the acclaimed John Frankenheimer. With both guards and inmates caged like animals Attica was a timebomb just waiting to explode. In this pressure-cooker of brutality a strange bond of humanity was forged between a... young rookie officer and the Black Panther leader of revolt. But their passionate belief in a human rights respect and dignity were about to be engulfed in the hatred prejudice and revenge......and the world never be the same again. Tiger Warsaw: Deeply moving story set in the steel town of Sharon Pennsylvania. Chuck Tiger Warsaw brought shame and sorrow to his family when he shot his father in a quarrel. The following 15 years he spent self-destructing dealing and taking drugs and giving his child up for adoption. Chuck returns to his hometown in a last-ditch attempt to put his shattered life back together. But his father now a semi-invalid and his sister Paula refuse to forgive him. Only his mother is glad to see him but she is torn between her love for her son and her duty as a wife. Split Decisions: The story of a fighting Irish family whose patriarch Dan has ambitious plans for his younger son Eddie to be in the Olympic Boxing Team. The Whistle Blower: Frank Jones is an ordinary law abiding businessman but his world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. The father embarks on his own investigation into his son's death and discovers that there are no limits to what the government will do to protect its secret activities. Darrow: Some people called him Lawyer for the Damned...but Clarence Darrow was simply a man who in time of justice had the courage to stand alone. The name Clarence Darrow is permanently linked to the tremendous strides in the American legal system from the late 19th century through the early decades of the twentieth century. This complex and charismatic onetime farm boy's history-making legal defences of the Pullman Rainroad Strike the Leopold/Loeb Murder Trial and the Scopes Monkey Trial have earned him the status of an authentic American hero. [show more]

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