| | Trial of Socrates (399 B.C.) - A 70-year-old philosopher put to death for what he was teaching. |
| | Trial of Jesus (30 A. D.) - Jesus was tried for blasphemy which eventually led to the crucifixion. |
| | Thomas More Trial (1535) - One the most revered men in England ends up with his head on the chopping block. "I die the King's good servant, and God's first." |
| | Trial of Galileo (1633) - His world revolved around science while the rest of the world's revolved around the church. |
| | Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692) - 19 men and women are hanged and one elderly man crushed after being accused of being witches. |
| | John Peter Zenger Trial (1735) - The man and the trial responsible for the freedom of press we enjoy today. |
| | Boston Massacre Trials (1770) - The debate continues today over who is repsonsible for the killing of four Boston people by British soldiers. |
| | Mutiny on the Bounty Court-Martial (1792) - The complicated story of 10 mutineers and their captain on the South Seas. |
| | Burr Conspiracy Trial (1807) - Aaron Burr, John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson all played roles in this court trial over treason. |
| | Amistad Trials (1839-1840) - A major part in the abolitionist movement in America. |
| | John Brown Trial (1859) - After his failed attempt at a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry he is tried, and executed. |
| | Lincoln Conspiracy Trial (1865) - The trial and hanging of 8 conspirators following the shot fired by John Wilkes Booth. |
| | Johnson Impeachment Trial (1868) - The Senate came within a single vote of removing the President from office. |
| | Susan Anthony Trial (1873) - The beginnings of woman's suffrage. |
| | Earp (O.K. Corral) Trial (1881) - Following the Old West's most famous gun battle. |
| | Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1895) - Ireland's greatest author and playwright put on trial three times for his controversial content. |
| | Black Sox Trial (1921) - The story of "Shoeless" Joe and the fixed White Sox baseball game. |
| | Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) - The trial that spurred conspiracies galore about the U.S. government and these two Italian anarchists. |
| | Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925) - The first major debate over the theory of evolution. |
| | Scottsboro Boys Trials (1931-1937) - A trial over the alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenage boys. |
| | Hauptmann (Lindbergh) Trial (1935) - The trial over the accused kidnapper of the famous aviator's baby. |
| | Nuremberg Trials (1945-49) - A story of true evil, monsterous actions done by normal people. |
| | Rosenberg Trial (1951) - A trial about the Manhattan Project, a top secret American program to develop the atomic bomb. |
| | Chicago 7 Trial (1969-70) - The trial of seven radicals accused of attempting to incite riots at the Democratic National Convention. |
| | Charles Manson Trial (1970-71) - "Mr. and Mrs. America--you are wrong. I am not the King of the Jews nor am I a hippie cult leader. I am what you have made me and the mad dog devil killer fiend leper is a reflection of your society. . ." |
| | Chamberlain "Dingo" Trial (1982) - Did this wild dog kill the baby or was it a great lie? "My God, my God, the dingo's got my baby!" |
| | McMartin Preschool Trial (1987-90) - The seven-year and $15 million dollar child abuse trial is the most expensive in American history. |
| | LAPD (King Beating) Trial (1992) - In what seemed to be and open-and-shut case over an excessive police beating of a citizen turned out to be not that at all. |
| | O.J. Simpson Trial (1995) - The famous white Bronco car chase and the man who was acquitted after the glove didn't fit. |
| | Oklahoma City Bombing Trial (1997) - Timothy McVeigh and the Ryder truck that blew up the building in Oklahoma City. |
| | Clinton Impeachment Trial (1999) - "I did not have sexual relations, with that woman." |
| | Moussaoui (9/11) Trial (2006) - "He killed the 9/11 victims as surely as if he had been at the controls of one of those airplanes." - U.S. Attorney Robert Spencer, in his opening statement in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. |