Trials of Alan Dershowitz, The

Americas best-known attorney fights to salvage a reputation built on controversial clients, courtroom triumphs, and a 50-year teaching career at Harvard. As the youngest professor in the schools history, Alan Dershowitz became a liberal icon in the 1970s and 80schampioning free speech, Soviet Jewry, and opposing the death penalty. He negotiated a spy exchange that freed dissident Natan Sharansky and saved two innocent boys from execution. By the 1990s, however, he became the ultimate celebrity lawyer, defending Claus von Blow, O.J. Simpson, and others, and later negotiating Jeffrey Epsteins plea deal. His decision to join Donald Trumps legal team during impeachment deeply divided friends, family, and the media. Now, Dershowitz remains a complex anti-hero, still writing his own final act. Also availale is a fetaure length version of this film.