Argentina 1985

Argentina, 1985 is Santiago Mitre's courtroom drama, and you can watch online on iFILM. It follows a handful of lawyers who dared to put a junta of former generals on trial in a country still frozen with fear.

At the center is prosecutor Julio Strassera (Ricardo Darín), handed an impossible job: build a case against the military men who tortured and disappeared their own people for years. No seasoned lawyer will touch it, so he assembles a crew of barely-tested young attorneys led by Luis Moreno Ocampo (Peter Lanzani). In a matter of months they must turn thousands of survivor testimonies into a verdict, all while threats keep arriving at every hour.

The film restages the mid-1980s trial that became the first time anywhere in Latin America that a civilian court convicted its own military rulers. Darín plays it quiet, almost weary, which makes the closing argument land harder than any speech. Nominated for the foreign-language Oscar, it's catnip for anyone who loves smart films about law and conscience. Stream Argentina, 1985 online on iFILM.