Movies and TvShows featuring "struggle-against-oppression" theme.

An American journalist who spent 13 months in France 1940-41 managed to arrange safe passage to the US for over 2,000 refugees; who were in danger of losing their lives.

The Battle of Algiers is a powerful docudrama depicting the violent conflict between the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the French colonial government during the Algerian War of Independence. The film explores the tactics employed by both sides, including guerilla warfare and acts of terrorism, as well as the impact of the conflict on the civilian population. It is based on true events and provides a harrowing account of the Algerian people's fight against oppression.

In the year 2096, a man immortality and struggles against oppression in Rio de Janeiro. He goes through different lives while fighting for love and freedom in a futuristic society.

In the 1500s, in Antwerp, Belgium, a brave teenage protagonist named Storm must navigate a dangerous world of propaganda and tyranny. He finds himself in the middle of the Protestant Reformation and becomes involved in a struggle against oppression. With the help of a strong female character and his friends, Storm embarks on a mission to rescue an orphan girl and uncover the truth. Along the way, Storm faces betrayal, justice, and tough challenges, including book burnings, imprisonment, and public humiliation. As he fights for freedom of speech and battles against the powerful forces of the Church, Storm's courage and determination are tested to the limit.

After being hit in the head, a man wakes up in 1927 to discover that he’s the spitting image of a famous bandit — and decides to make the most of it.

Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) is a historical drama that depicts the Algerian resistance against French colonialism and their fight for liberation. Set in the 1940s and 1950s, the film explores the harsh realities faced by Algerians under French occupation, including racial segregation, political activism, and the struggle for independence. It highlights key moments such as massacres, the involvement of Nazi Germany during World War Two, and the guerilla warfare tactics used by the Algerian rebels.

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.

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.

Colombia receives the indemnity for Panama and accepts foreign credit to undertake development works, which increases the number of workers, although with poor wages and terrible working conditions. María Cano, a political activist, began her fight for the conditions of salaried workers and for the fundamental rights of the population.