Movies and TvShows featuring "state-within-a-state" theme.

When the newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just before his first public appearance, a psychoanalyst is brought in to help him overcome his fears and doubts.

During a heat wave in London, residents of the Pimlico district discover that the area is actually an independent state.

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.