John Benfield

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

The great Daniel Day-Lewis is Gerry Conlon, a man coerced into confessing a crime he did not commit, in this 1993 based-on-a-true-story drama nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture.