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10 Best Movies Like Inherit the Wind

If you loved Inherit the Wind, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

1999★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Inherit the Wind for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution....

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Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

1960★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Inherit the Wind for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbe...

#3
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Inherit the Wind for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#4
The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker

1997★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Inherit the Wind for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrapp...

#5
Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

1995★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Inherit the Wind for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" vi...

#6
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Inherit the Wind for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

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