The deemsters also promulgate the Laws on Tynwald Day by reading out brief summaries of them in English and Manx.
Unlike judges in the United Kingdom, Deemsters have no security of tenure and thus have no legal protection against dismissal by the government.
The appointment and removal of Manx judges on the formal advice of United Kingdom politicians is seen as an effective alternative.
The list has been compiled from the Liber Juramentorum (the book recording the oaths taken by officers on appointment), the Isle of Man Statutes with additional names from the archive of David Craine.
The film is based on the 1894 novel of the same name by the Manx writer Hall Caine, who published another novel with a similar theme with the title The Deemster (1887).