Characters: Rebels
Description: Fighting for justice, civil rights and social change, rebels engaged in civil disobedience dare to challenge oppressive power across these films and shows. We admire their activism and defiant courage to provoke change against the status quo.
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More characters to explore:
Characters: Monarchs
Characters: Polymaths
Characters: Writers
Characters: Singers
Characters: Filmmakers
Characters: Politicians & Influencers in History
Characters: Gangsters
Characters: Pioneers
Characters: High IQ
Characters: Poets
Characters: Fashion Designers
Characters: Teachers
Characters: Painters & Sculptors
Characters: Pirates
Characters: Music Composers
Characters: Mafioso / Mobsters
*Some descriptions might have been enhanced by AI.
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- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittShailene WoodleyMelissa LeoThe NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsEdward SnowdenGlenn GreenwaldWilliam BinneyA documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
- DirectorBill CondonStarsBenedict CumberbatchDaniel BrühlCarice van HoutenA dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsJulian AssangeSarah HarrisonJacob AppelbaumThe story of WikiLeak's editor-in-chief Julian Assange as seen by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras.
- DirectorBrian KnappenbergerStarsAnon2WorldAnonyopsJulian AssangeA documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous.
- DirectorJesper HuorBosse LindquistStarsJulian AssangeDaniel Domscheit-BergKristinn HrafnssonAbout the work behind the scenes and the emergence of the organization Wikileaks. Wikileaks has carried out history's largest revelations of classified information.
- DirectorBen SteeleStarsEmma ReillyInvestigation into wrongdoing, corruption and whistle-blowing in the United Nations.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsNaomi WattsNaveen AndrewsCas AnvarDuring the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
- DirectorDenzel WashingtonStarsDenzel WashingtonForest WhitakerKimberly EliseA drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
- DirectorAnnette Haywood-CarterStarsJim CaviezelChiwetel EjioforJaimie AlexanderDrama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsWoody HarrelsonCourtney LoveEdward NortonThe story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.
- DirectorLarysa KondrackiStarsRachel WeiszMonica BellucciVanessa RedgraveA drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
- DirectorJulie DashStarsAngela BassettPeter Francis JamesTonea StewartA seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
- DirectorStanley NelsonStarsRaymond ArsenaultGenevieve HoughtonGordon CareyThe story of the Civil Rights Movement interstate busing protest campaign.
- DirectorAda UshpizStarsHannah ArendtJury AndruchowytschAharon AppelfeldA documentary about the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker, political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high-ranking Nazi.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsBarbara SukowaDaniel OlbrychskiOtto SanderAfter years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsBarbara SukowaAxel MilbergJanet McTeerA look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsEmmanuelle RivaEiji OkadaStella DassasA French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsMeryl StreepTom HanksSarah PaulsonA cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
- DirectorAaron SorkinStarsEddie RedmayneAlex SharpSacha Baron CohenThe story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- DirectorFabrizio CostaStarsOlivia HusseySebastiano SommaIngrid RubioMother Teresa's life is portrayed from the beginning of her ministry to her death. She seeks to serve the poor by creating a new "congregation" in the Church, establishing refuges for the dying and orphaned, and providing some comfort and food. Obstacles abound and she pushes through them to the end.
- DirectorAnn PetrieJeanette PetrieStarsRichard AttenboroughMother TeresaMohandas K. GandhiThis definitive portrait of Mother Teresa was shot over 5 years and follows the saint into the world's trouble spots, showing how Mother Teresa transcends all barriers with her works of love.
- DirectorJohn DuiganStarsCharlize TheronStuart TownsendPenélope CruzFrom the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
