Marshall(2017)

Before he became a titan of the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was a crusading lawyer for the NAACP, crisscrossing a segregated America to defend those the system had already written off. The 2017 film Marshall , directed by Reginald Hudlin, chooses to skip the "greatest hits" of his later career—like the landmark Brown v. Board of Education —to focus on a smaller, gritty legal battle that reveals the "measure of the man" early on.

Check out this spotlight on the film’s unique approach to the courtroom drama genre: Marshall(2017)