| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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The Supreme Court, Part I: The Least Dangerous Branch. Prod. by Rob Rapley, Julia Elliot, and Jamila Wignot. HiddenHill Productions and Thirteen/wnet New York, 2006. 60 mins. (http://www.historyofsupremecourt.org/)
I remember fondly pbs's award-winning 1988 documentary This Honorable Court (reviewed in the JAH, Dec. 1989, p. 1006). That two-part program explored the United States Supreme Court as both a source of stability and a force for social change, and it also afforded viewers unprecedented glimpses of life inside the Supreme Court building. I had long hoped pbs would update that wonderful documentary, and now it has, thanks to Thirteen/wnet New York. The Supreme Court is a worthy successor to This Honorable Court.	1
Part 1 of the projected four-part series was the only program available for review. Entitled The Least Dangerous Branch, part 1 focuses on John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the United States and the person the program credits with establishing the Supreme Court as the powerful judicial institution we take for granted today. The program emphasizes Marshall's enormous personal and political skills and demonstrates in vivid detail how the "great chief justice" found in an obscure case involving an unsigned judicial appointment the opportunity to assert the Court's most important power: judicial review.	. . .

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