Russell Crowe’s World War II Legal Drama Becomes Prime Video Hit

Russell Crowe’s World War II courtroom thriller Nuremberg has found a new audience on streaming, climbing into Prime Video’s Top 10 after a muted theatrical run. The film is available to rent or purchase. Crowe, long associated with Maximus in Gladiator, has shifted into more restrained, character-driven work, and his long-gestating passion project is focused on moral tension, psychological conflict and legal reckoning rather than battlefield spectacle.

The story follows the postwar trials that evaluated whether high-ranking Nazis were mentally fit to stand trial, and features an ensemble including Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant and Leo Woodall. When Nuremberg reached theaters last November after years of delays it failed to ignite the box office; critics gave it a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes while audiences scored it 95%.

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