Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s
Judgment at Nuremberg
Scored from 252 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Stanley Kramer's courtroom drama, scripted by Abby Mann, opens in Nuremberg in 1948, after the major Nazi defendants have been tried and enthusiasm for further prosecutions has faded. Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy), a plain-spoken retired judge from Maine, presides over the trial of four German jurists charged with crimes against humanity for the sentences they imposed under the Third Reich. The most eminent of them, legal scholar Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster), refuses to speak, while defense counsel Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Schell) argues that an occupying power cannot sit in judgment on a nation's own laws. Witnesses played by Montgomery Clift and Judy Garland testify as the Berlin blockade raises the political pressure to treat Germans leniently.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a film IMDb files under the drama, history and war genres. It was made in the United States. It is rated Approved. The runtime is 179 minutes.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. 252 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 262 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Judgment at Nuremberg lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 252.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
