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Are you hoping Trial By Fire is not based on a true story? Unfortunately, the film is based on a real-life nightmare. Director Edward Zwick‘s 2018 biographical drama is a heartbreaking film ...

Between the ninth and 13th centuries a person's guilt or innocence was determined by trial by fire or water ... Though discredited now, trial by ordeal was considered highly effective in this ...

But will his case be reconsidered in time? Find out in Trial By Fire, a 2019 movie currently planted in the Netflix Top 10, which is based on a true story. The Gist: Cameron Todd Willingham (Jack ...

The Anglo-Saxons used trial by ordeal to determine proof through the Judgement of God, the Judicium Dei. The two main types of ordeal are explored, trial by hot iron and trial by water.