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Nuremberg

★ 7.3 8K votes 2000–2000 1 seasons · 2 episodes Ended TNT
Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 9/10LegalCourtrooms, lawyers and the machinery of the law.This show: 8/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Dialogue-drivenThe writing's voice is the main event.This show: 7/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Alec BaldwinBrian CoxChristopher PlummerJill HennessyChristopher HeyerdahlRoger Dunn
Starring
Alec BaldwinBrian CoxChristopher PlummerJill HennessyChristopher HeyerdahlRoger Dunn
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Votes per Episode
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"A courtroom duel with history's reckoning at stake"

This two-part TV movie dramatizes the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials, focusing on the legal and psychological duel between American prosecutor Robert Jackson and captured Nazi leader Hermann Göring. It is talky and stagebound by design, more courtroom chess match than war spectacle, driven almost entirely by performance rather than action. The pacing is deliberate, sometimes stiff, but the central confrontation between prosecutor and defendant carries real tension. It works best as a character study of how you put unprecedented evil on trial using ordinary legal procedure, rather than as a sweeping historical epic.

Watch it for

the tense verbal sparring between the prosecutor and an unrepentant, cunning Nazi defendant.

Maybe skip if

you want battlefield drama rather than dense, dialogue-heavy courtroom proceedings.

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All Seasons

Season 12000
7.42152
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Episode #1.17.3
110
2Episode #1.27.6
105

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Alec Baldwin Justice Robert H. Jackson
Brian Cox Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
Christopher Plummer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Jill Hennessy Elsie Douglas
Christopher Heyerdahl Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Roger Dunn Col. Robert Storey
David McIlwraith Col. John Harlan Amen
Christopher Shyer Gen. Telford Taylor
Hrothgar Mathews Thomas J. Dodd
Herbert Knaup Albert Speer

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