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A police officer is killed in the line of duty every 53 hours in the United States. Giving these heroes a voice, this documentary tells their stories through the eyes of the partners, families, and communities they left behind.

Clanton, Misisipi. 1990. Jake Brigance se ve envuelto en un juicio profundamente divisivo cuando el tribunal lo nombra abogado de Drew Gamble, un timido muchacho de dieciseis anos acusado de asesinar a un diputado local. Muchos en Clanton quieren un juicio rapido y la pena de muerte, pero Brigance investiga y descubre que hay mas en la historia de lo que parece. El feroz compromiso de Jake de salvar a Drew de la camara de gas pone en peligro su carrera,...

Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line to defend a sixteen-year-old suspect who is accused of killing a local deputy and is facing the death penalty.

They called it "The Arctic Circle War." It was a manhunt the likes of which we will never see again. The quarry, Albert Johnson, was a loner working a string of traps in the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Territories, where winter temperatures average forty degrees below zero. The chase began when two Mounties came to ask Johnson about allegations that he had interfered with a neighbor's trap. No questions were asked. Johnson discharged the first...

"The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer"--|cProvided by publisher.

When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hiding out in China's densely populated Wuhan province, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions of her own.

"Eighteen months ago, Detective Reed Mattox didn't just lose his partner, the woman he met on his first day at the police academy and worked with for the entirety of his career thereafter. He lost his confidante. His sounding board. His support system. His best friend. Victim to a senseless shooting during a routine traffic stop, the details of that night are still as elusive to Reed as they were more than a year before. Months of scouring every...