Movies and TvShows featuring "freedom-fighters" theme.

Sonic, his siblings, and the Sonic Underground band together in a rebellion against the evil Robotnik, using the power of rock to fight for freedom.

Escape from Pretoria is a gripping biographical film based on the true story of Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two anti-apartheid activists who devise an ingenious plan to escape from Pretoria Central Prison in 1979. Facing political persecution and imprisonment, they use their ingenuity and resourcefulness to outsmart the prison guards and embark on a dangerous journey to freedom. The film explores themes of racism, political activism, and the fight for equal rights.

Machine Gun Preacher follows the true story of Sam Childers, a former biker and drug dealer who turns his life around and becomes a preacher. He travels to Sudan and witnesses the atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army. Determined to make a difference, Childers starts a mission to rescue children who have been forced to become soldiers, using his machine gun to protect them. As he fights against the LRA and faces personal challenges, Childers finds redemption and a new purpose in life.

In 1941, a group of Chinese railroad workers become freedom fighters to resist the Japanese occupation during World War II. They embark on dangerous missions and use their knowledge of the railway to fight against the enemy. The film involves action-packed train sequences, combats, and train crashes as the freedom fighters risk their lives for the cause.

Cliffs of Freedom is a period drama set in the 1820s, following the story of a young Greek woman who becomes a freedom fighter against the Ottoman Empire. The movie depicts her journey of sacrifice, love, and the fight for independence.

Twenty-five years on from a peace agreement being reached, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland shares intimate, unheard testimonies from all sides of the conflict.

In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black man and freed slave who has lost his papers. Locals with a grudge against Lincoln and a hatred of African-Americans frame Henry for stealing, and it's up to Lincoln to defend the man and find the vital clue that will set him free.

This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the film and interviews with personalities, the filmmaker retraces the journey of a major work - from the events of the Algiers Casbah (1956-1957) to the presentation of the Lion of 'Or causing the anger of the French delegation in Venice - which left its mark as much in the history of cinema as in that of Algeria.

“Entre el grito y la celda” is a film adaptation of the theatrical monologue “Lolita", which has been performed locally and internationally for the past 11 years, with over 60 performances in 5 countries, 5 states in North America, and more than 40 municipalities in Puerto Rico. The story is set in late 1954, when political prisoner Lolita Lebrón had already been sentenced to 50 years in prison at the federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, for leading an attack on the United States Congress. The film explores Lolita's life and patriotic thoughts through poetic language, intertwining her three most significant aspects: her fervent religiosity, her fight for justice from the perspective of a young woman and mother, and her patriotic bravery to risk her freedom for causes and values she firmly believed in. The movie highlights the themes of national identity and the struggles of a resilient woman who became, for many, the Mother of the Puerto Rican Nation.

Swaraj is a docu-drama series that celebrates 75 years of Indian independence. It features the lives and sacrifices of lesser-known heroes of the freedom struggle. The show bring to life the stories of unsung heroes who sacrificed and fought for India over 450 years of freedom struggle but remain unheard and unknown to this day despite their untold sacrifices.

When terrorists attempt to assassinate a politician who's under his protection, a dutiful police officer vows to capture them within a week.

Elpidio Valdés, a soldier of the Cuban war of independence, is entrusted with the difficult and dangerous mission of bringing from Florida, in the United States, a shipment of weapons for the Cuban Liberation Army. It develops between 1896 and 1897.

In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.

Independent documentary created by group of enthusiast from Russia. It covers the topic of Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico and struggle of Mexican indigenous peoples for justice, liberty and democracy.

Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.

During the French-Algerian War in the 1940s, Mostefa Ben Boulaid becomes a resistance leader and leads a group of Algerian fighters against French colonialism. He plans a daring escape from prison, digs a tunnel, and forms an escape plan. With the help of an Algerian woman and other revolutionaries, they struggle for independence and face war crimes committed by the French army.

When a British-born actor abandons his Hollywood career to volunteer to Join the Kurdish YPG to fight ISIS in Syria, many see him as a selfless hero battling America's most insidious enemy. But others think he's a hot-tempered narcissist, staging a publicity stunt to further his career - and when his service ends, neither the UK nor the US welcome him back. Through incisive interviews with the actor, his supporters, his detractors, and top-tier experts - and featuring the actor's own jaw-dropping helmet-cam video of deadly battles with and interrogations of ISIS fighters - Heval gives viewers unprecedented access into a war against evil and one man's controversial role in it.

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived from Algeria. Of Jewish faith, he of Arabic mother tongue, they formed a fighting couple, started for the independence of Algeria, always with an unshakeable faith in humanity. They enjoy recounting the participation of Algerian Jews in the Second World War and the struggle for Algerian independence. They provide us with previously unpublished information on the public and clandestine struggles of the Algerian Communist Party before and after independence, and on the repression of activists who, like William and Gilberte Sportisse, were tortured and imprisoned after Colonel Boumédiène came to power. The film is an ode to understanding between people of different origins or cultures and a tribute to a couple whose youthful character and enthusiasm still astonish.