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- A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
- In Silent Witness, Dermot Mulroney (Zodiak, Copycat) plays prominent defense attorney Tony Lord, who returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, played by Michael Cudlitz (TNT's Southland). The friend is a teacher accused of murdering one of his students, and the case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love. Silent Witness also stars Anne Heche (Hung, Men in Trees) as Sue Robb, the wife of the accused teacher, and Judd Hirsch (Damages, Taxi) as Saul Ruben, Tony Lord's close friend and associate.
- The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a neighborhood bar.
- Ruby Herring heads to a mountain resort for her sister's wedding, which is thrown into turmoil when Ruby finds her mother's oldest friend, Sugar Tucker, drowned in a creek.
- The murder of a to-be step-mom is being prosecuted with apparently clinching evidence. The father holds his accused daughter innocent. The faithful driver and his seemingly sly, amorous wife are involved. Further differing evidence spouts.
- A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears.
- A documentary based on scientific investigations of the Shroud of Turin. Noted medical examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth.
- A British nobleman takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles her lover.
- A prosecutor tracks a gang murder to a Los Angeles youth who could name his own brother.
- District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder. Their attorney, Bruce Strong, gets them off when the testimony given by Mrs. Roos proves to be perjured. Carlos, one of the Manson gang members, rightfully thinks he is not getting his rightful cut, and when he says this to the Mansons, they shoot him. He hangs on long enough to crawl to Holden's office. The Mansons call Bruce and tell him that one of their gang has squealed and that they are going after the District Attorney. Bruce tries to track down the D.A. and warn him, and follows him in his car as the D.A. goes out looking for the Mansons. The D.A. is killed when the Mansons run his car off the road, but his dog Ace bites Lou and is shot during this mêlée. Some rancher's children find the wounded Ace and take him home with them. Bruce is near the scene at the time, and the Mansons plant the gun used to shoot Carlos in his car. Bruce is indicted and convicted of the murder. Betty is convinced he is innocent and sets out to proves his innocence.
- TV Movie
- The historical frames of Colombian silent films serve, once recovered and re-edited, to tell a new fictional narrative: the impossible romance between Efrain and Alicia.
- Amanda Burton looks back on the early days of Silent Witness (1996).
- This riveting documentary about the Auschwitz extermination camp combines interviews with survivors, archival footage, and newly-shot footage on the camp grounds, as well as interviews with the camp museum personnel.
- Danny, fourteen-year-old son of a police officer (killed in the line of duty) and his widowed mother, Mary, are close to Lieutenant Williams. The Lieutenant would like to marry Mary, who does not have any interest in marrying another police officer. Meanwhile, Gus Jordan, a third-rate wrestler, accidentally kills his girlfriend Lola. Danny witnesses this while on his paper route, and becomes Jordan's target, which Williams must stop.
- A free-spirited college girl insists on carrying on her romance with a young mobster, scandalizing the town and going against the wishes of her father, the town's most prominent attorney--and who has his own reasons for not wanting to attract too much attention to him and his family.
- Seven people recall. A place of memory breaks its silence.
- The president of a state bank finds that the District Attorney has evidence that will send him to jail. The banker calls on the official of the law, and succeeds in bribing him to suppress the case. Not only is the District Attorney a grafter, but his secretary is of much the same caliber. During the conference between the District Attorney and the banker, the dishonest secretary is hidden in an adjoining room, and unseen by the others, he takes a photograph over the transom just at the interesting moment when a considerable sum of money changes hands. The secretary develops the picture and finds that it is excellent. He proceeds to blackmail his employer, and finds it possible to live extravagantly without work. He laughs at the District Attorney, and retains the evidence of the official's crimes. Among the friends of the secretary is a young couple, and the secretary, becoming idle and dissipated, proceeds to make love to the wife. He hides his passion until one evening when he finds the wife alone. He then tries to embrace her. The husband comes back at this moment, and makes a rush for the would-be despoiler of his home. A lamp, the only light in the room, is upset, and the place is dark. Then there is a flash and a shot, and the young blackmailer falls to the floor, dead. The police are promptly on the scene, having heard the shot, and find the couple in the room with the body of their one-time friend. The wife thinks the husband fired in anger, the husband believes the wife shot to protect herself. The woman faints, the man "confesses," and is led off to prison. Neither they nor the police suspect the District Attorney, but he is the guilty man. Driven half mad by the constantly increasing demands of the blackmailer, he had followed him through the streets, determined to end his life of torment. At the house he saw his chance and took it. The District Attorney is called upon to prosecute a man he knows to be innocent. Then the situation is further complicated by the wife, who, to save her husband, confesses that she is the guilty person. The District Attorney, in his summing up, accuses them both. His speech is well under way when an unexpected witness appears at the last moment. The slain man occupied a furnished room, and the place was being put in order for a new tenant. The maid, in the course of her work, discovered a packet, cunningly hidden, containing proofs of the District Attorney's guilt and the strong inference that he was the only person who was interested in putting the secretary out of the way. Suddenly confronted with this evidence, the prosecutor broke down and confessed. Husband and wife, each of whom had tried to take the consequences of a crime to save the other, find that both are guiltless, and are set free.
- Jack comes into the cattle town broke, looking for work. This he secures with a ranchman and in that this ranchman has a pretty daughter. Vera, the position particularly appeals to the young cowboy. As the days pass, Jack and Vera become attached to each other much to the disgust and anger of the foreman, George, who seeks Vera for himself. This foreman is the secret head of a gang of cattle thieves, and he has been planning raids on his own boss's ranch. Jack, in the course of his work, comes to suspect the foreman, but can find nothing on him. The foreman, on the other hand, schemes to compromise Jack in the cattle raids with the assistance of a Mexican. They plant on Jack's saddle an iron used in making over the brand on the horses that have been stolen. Vera has purchased a small camera, the only one to be had in the town. Of an afternoon she rides into the hills with Jack to take some pictures. They forget the camera on starting back home, and Jack returns to get it. Before joining Vera again, Jack runs into the cattle rustlers, and he snaps a picture of them from behind bushes, with the foreman in the foreground. Soon after the rustlers are attacked by the cowboys. But the foreman escapes without being detected. Once back at the ranch the foreman accuses Jack of being the leader of the gang and produces the iron concealed in Jack's saddle. In the meantime, Vera is in the dark room developing her pictures. Among them she finds one of the cattle rustlers. As Jack is about to be led off with a rope around his neck by the furious cowboys, she rushes out and displays the incriminating picture. The Mexican is captured and the two culprits are led off to jail. Jack and Vera, later, find many happy days together with Jack, promoted to the position of foreman.
- This is a film about a crime, which is revealed through the cleverness of a young detective.
- Kunhardt Film Foundation Presents An Interview Archive Original: The Silent Witness, a documentary about Tomiko Morimoto West's experience as a 13 year old girl in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, the day the first atomic bomb dropped. West, now a 91 year old woman, didn't talk about her memories from that time for many years, but now shares her story because she believes it will help people. West was working at a printing shop helping with the Japanese war effort when she saw a B-29 flying over the factory. When the nuclear bomb dropped she said there was no sound, just a white flash. She thought she was going to die in that instant, but believes the wall she was standing behind saved her life. She survived by escaping to a mountain cave. In the days that followed, she searched for her family who had all died as she witnessed the atrocities of nuclear war. West hesitantly says the experience made a better person out of her and that it gave her an appreciation for life.
- Janet Rigsby loves Richard Morgan, a Denver college student, but loses him when he is caught in a fire. Shortly after Richard's presumed demise, Janet leaves her home and bears a son out of wedlock. Over the years, she struggles to make ends meet while raising Bud, her son, on her own. Although her savings are small, Janet manages to send Bud to college. Chastised for his poverty and illegitimate birth, Bud, who is in love with the college gardener's daughter, suffers the ridicule of his peers and eventually comes to blows with and threatens one particular boy for insulting his mother. In the ensuing confrontation, the boy is killed and Bud is arrested for the crime. During the course of the trial, Bud discovers that the district attorney is Richard Morgan, his father. The testimony of one expert witness reveals how the murder in truth was committed, and a liberated Bud happily reunites with his mother and new-found father.
- Carl Rogers has risen from the position of bookkeeper to that of a cashier in the small and only bank of Santa Paula. The president of the bank, John Blackwood, does not look with favor upon the affection which is shown by Rogers for his daughter Lolita. His prospects of marrying Lolita being small, encourages him to work harder than ever on his invention, an electrical device for melting steel. Rogers advertises his invention in the papers, and two crooks, Handsome Jack and Blue Beard, lay a scheme to get his invention and make use of it in their line of occupation. Rogers sees them in a room in the city set for the appearance of an office, and after receiving a receipt for his model, leaves it with them for supposed consideration. Returning to Santa Paula, Rogers goes on about his work at the bank. Handsome Jack and Blue Beard then round up two of their gang and plan a big robbery in Santa Paula. In the meantime, mostly at night, they look the bank over, planning entrances and exits. On the day planned for the robbery, Lolita visits her father and Rogers, at the bank, after taking a few camera pictures of her friends. She leaves the camera on a desk near the safe and forgets it when she leaves. Rogers and Blackwood close the safe and bank after she departs, and not noticing the camera, leave for the night. Near midnight Ryan and Stevens enter the bank from a rear entrance, and after covering the windows to keep out the flashes, set to work on the safe with Rogers' invention. The wires are connected and Ryan tests the device on the safe's door. The flashes are bright and the heat intense, causing Stevens to move back. His hand accidentally pushes the shutter release on the camera and exposes the plate as a tremendous flash comes from the safe. The touching of the release and the flash from the electrical device serve to produce a flash light picture, unknown to the crooks. The safe is easily opened with Rogers' device and the contents extracted. The crooks make their escape up an alley leading from the hotel. Unknown to them, the melting iron is dropped in their flight. The following morning they go to work as usual at the store where they contrived to get employment in order to stave off suspicion, Rogers and Blackwood arrive at the bank the next day, and are dumbfounded at the sight of the melted safe and the missing money. The sheriff is notified, and on his way to the scene, comes through the alley and finds the mysterious looking invention of Rogers. At the bank he looks the safe over and is sure that the iron he found has caused it. Rogers is taken back at the sight of his invention and tells of its use. Blackwood thinks the story weak and jumps at conclusions and orders Rogers arrested for the robbery. The sheriff is told of the invention being Rogers' and of Rogers' want of money to marry Lolita. Lolita comes to the bank to get the forgotten camera, and is amazed and heartbroken at the happenings told to her by her father. She goes home with the camera and attempts to ease her mind by developing the films. She finds the picture of Ryan at work on the safe. Rushing to her father, she shows him the needed evidence to free her lover. Together they race to the sheriff's office. Rogers is released, and the sheriff grabs the crooks at the store and locates the money in their room. What can Blackwood do? The papers in the city get bold of the story and some real promoters read it and buy Rogers' invention. So it is up to the stern old banker to turn his treasure, Lolita, over to Rogers.
- A boy's use of a film company's camera clears a convicted man of killing his fiancée's father.
- The granddaughter of an old paralytic is courted by two young men of the village, one of whom she accepts. The rejected suitor, in order to avenge himself, steals some valuables in the paralytic's home, the invalid being a powerless spectator of the robbery. The stolen jewels are then placed by the robber in the pocket of his happy rival, and thus the innocent young man is accused of the theft, and particularly charged by the one who himself was guilty of the robbery. The accusation is made in the presence of the old paralytic. His emotion upon hearing this lie is so great as to cause him to regain his speech and the use of his limbs. The old man convicts the real culprit, and while the criminal is taken into custody, to the innocent he gives the hand of his granddaughter. One month later the wedding takes place and the dance is opened by the old man, now quite cured from his ancient illness.
- Because Tom Perry, who is working for his father in a broker's office, takes the part of Edith Marsh, stenographer, when she resents the attentions of Bill Claire, he is discharged by the general manager, John Fownes. Tom says that he will marry the girl and his father threatens to disown him. Edith, in order not to jeopardize Tom's chances, moves away to another part of the city and takes a position in a dictaphone factory, scraping records. John Fownes stays at the office late one evening to finish up some work and is dictating into the dictaphone, when Bill Claire, whom Fownes has also discharged and who to drown his troubles has taken to drink, climbs into the window over the fire-escape surprising Fownes at his work. The conversation that takes place between them is recorded on the dictaphone, which Fownes has not had a chance to shut off before Claire kills him. Tom, whose father has asked him to meet him at his office that evening to see if they cannot come to some understanding, hears the shot and rushes into Fownes' office. Claire by this time has escaped and Tom is arrested for the murder. A box of old records is sent to be scraped at the factory where Edith is employed. She finds the record which was on the dictaphone at the time of the murder and rushes to the police headquarters with the evidence which clears Tom.
- 1998–20116.5 (8)TV Episode
- A married professor kills the beautiful blackmailing student he's been having a sexual affair with in the presence of a baby.
- A strange woman asks Mitch and Garner to help to seek out her daughter who has accidentally becomes the only witness to a murder. Meanwhile, Mitch's zen girlfriend, Destiny, has some complications throughout the night after her bag is switched at the LA airport, and Ryan gets ripped off on ocean view property she plans to buy.
- The outlaw Traxel brothers and gang leader Willis Turner murder Bronco's best friend and then frame him for the crime. The only thing that can save him is the testimony of a young girl who knows that Bronco didn't do it--but she's a mute.
- Children's Hospital is an Australian television series that screened on the ABC in 1997 and 1998. There was one series of 13 episodes produced. The series was set in a busy inner-city children's hospital. It followed the stories of the hospital staff, the young patients and their concerned families.
- A young girl is murdered, and police have a lot of trouble gathering sufficient evidence to bring the killer to justice, aware they must complete their case before he kills again.
- The Hobo witnesses a drunken hit-and-run and haunts the perpetrator, playing his conscience against him.
- A lonely nurse is brutally attacked but refuses to identify her assailant.