Movies and TvShows featuring "social-upheaval" theme.

The Round-Up is a powerful drama set in Austria-Hungary during a time of war and political oppression. The story follows a group of revolutionaries who are captured and imprisoned in a brutal detention camp. They endure psychological torment, torture, and even death as they fight for their freedom against the oppressive regime.

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.

Silence and Cry is set in Hungary in 1919, during the aftermath of World War I. It follows the story of a young man named Miklós, who returns to his village after serving in the army. As he struggles with the consequences of war and grapples with his own beliefs, he becomes entangled in a web of nationalism, communist ideals, poison, and the crippling effects of political ideologies.

Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. But he soon learns it's all about survival. Like Ramon, Spain is in transition (President Francisco Franco is about to die); it's a time of social upheaval marked by change, illusion and struggle.