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Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
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Stephen Frears
director
Christopher Plummer
John Marshall Harlan
Frank Langella
Chief Justice Warren Burger
Ed Begley Jr.
Justice Harry Blackmun
Peter Gerety
William Brennan
Barry Levinson
Justice Potter Stewart
John Bedford Lloyd
Byron 'Whizzer' White
Fritz Weaver
Hugo Black
Harris Yulin
William O. Douglas
Danny Glover
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Benjamin Walker
Kevin Kennedy
Pablo Schreiber
Covert Becker
Dana Ivey
Mrs. Paige
Kathleen Chalfant
Ethel Harlan
Lisa Joyce
Donna Connolly
Peter McRobbie
Erwin Griswold
Damian Young
Ramsey Clark
Chuck Cooper
Chauncey Eskridge
Victor Slezak
Marshal of the Court
Charlie Hewson
Burger's Clerk
Justin Swain
Burger's Second Clerk
Nate Dern
Blackmun's Second Clerk
James Francis Ginty
Brennan's Clerk
Christopher McLinden
Black's Second Clerk
Keith Nobbs
Douglas's Clerk
Drew Gehling
Marshall's Clerk
Greg Connolly
Doctor
Jon Gabrus
Stoned Clerk
Steven Hauck
Maitre D'
Pamela Stewart
Librarian
Kerry Malloy
Vietnam Vet
Ed Jewett
Tourist
Lizan Mitchell
Housekeeper
Muhammad Ali
Himself (archive footage)
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