Judgment at Nuremberg 1961

The trial of Nazi war criminals is underway in Nuremberg. Cases involving lawyers who served the Nazi regime are being heard. The main defendant is the well-known German judge Ernst Janning, who had earned respect in Germany long before Hitler came to power. The case is being presided over by an experienced American judge, Dan Haywood, who must navigate this complex and ambiguous case, for at stake is not so much the life and honor of one man as the postwar life and honor of the entire German people.