12 Dec 1993
In the Name of the Father
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Separate But Equal
The true story behind the most important legal battle of our time.
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Top Billed Cast
Sidney Poitier Thurgood Marshall
Burt Lancaster John W. Davis
Richard Kiley Chief Justice Earl Warren
Cleavon Little Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Gloria Foster Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
John McMartin Governor James F. Byrnes
Mark Hammer Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed
Graham Beckel Josiah C. Tulley
Jeffrey Wright William Coleman
Ed Hall Reverend J.A. Delaine
Lynne Thigpen Ruth Alice Stovall
Hallie Foote Julia Davis
Macon McCalman W.B. Springer
Randle Mell Charles L. Black Jr.
Cheryl Lynn Bruce Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis Harry Briggs
John Rothman NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg
Damien Leake Dr. Kenneth Clark
Mike Nussbaum Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
William Hardy Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark
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