"In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President and others. Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save...

A film that explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for catching a dictator 25 years after his rise to power, making him the first to be humbled by the international justice system since the Nuremberg Trials. When Pinochet finally returned to Chile, he faced 200 accusations of his crimes, this time in Chilean courts. In January 2001, Pinochet was placed under house arrest, and the Chilean justice system finally started to...