Fighting the System
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    Movies

    Civil Brand (2003)

    Wrongly convicted for murder, a woman leads abused female inmates (N'Bushe Wright, Monica Calhoun)...

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    Movies

    Arena (1991)

    An underdog earthling (Paul Satterfield) fights an alien monster for the gladiator championship of...

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    Movies

    Gattaca (1997)

    An outcast (Ethan Hawke) takes part in a complicated and perilous scheme to assume the identity of a...

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    A Stone's Throw

    A photojournalist dedicated to exposing industrial abuses of nature visits his sister in Canada to...

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    Silent Running (1971)

    A renegade botanist (Bruce Dern) kills his space-station shipmates (Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin) to save...

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    Slap Shot (1977)

    A minor-league hockey team makes sports history when its members decide to spruce up the team's...

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    Movies

    Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

    Murderer Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) spends decades in solitary confinement studying birds and...

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    The Majestic (2001)

    Residents of a 1950s coastal community mistake an amnesiac screenwriter for a soldier who never...

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    Vera Drake (2004)

    A middle-aged mother (Imelda Staunton) secretly works as an abortionist in low-rent London...

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    The Devil's Disciple (1959)

    British Gen. Burgoyne (Laurence Olivier) takes a Colonist (Kirk Douglas) for a pastor (Burt...

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    The Sea Inside (2004)

    Ramón Sampedro (Javier Bardem), a quadriplegic for nearly 30 years, wants a lawyer (Belén Rueda) and...

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    Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (2009)

    Remake of the 1956 film noir film "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in which a writer's plan to expose a...

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    Movies

    American Violet (2009)

    A single African-American mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and...

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    Movies

    Clear and Present Danger (1994)

    An acting CIA chief (Harrison Ford) learns the president has triggered a war with Colombian drug...

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    Mad City (1997)

    An investigative reporter (Dustin Hoffman) brings national attention to a fired security guard (John...

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    Norma Rae (1979)

    A union organizer (Ron Leibman) from up North recruits a divorced cotton-mill worker (Sally Field)...

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    Movies

    Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

    Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore creates a searing examination of the Bush...

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    Movies

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

    When a persistent posse threatens two outlaws' (Paul Newman, Robert Redford) romp through Wyoming,...

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    Movies

    I Love Trouble (1994)

    Sparks fly between rival Chicago reporters (Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte) chasing down a story that...

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    Movies

    Outland (1981)

    A 21st-century lawman (Sean Connery) has a showdown with company goons at a mining colony on one of...

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    Movies

    Kinsey (2004)

    Zoologist Alfred Kinsey's (Liam Neeson) research on human sexuality challenges the status quo of the...

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    Movies

    The Wild One (1953)

    A motorcycle outlaw (Marlon Brando) in a black leather jacket takes over a town with his gang.

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    Movies

    The Magdalene Sisters (2003)

    Young women (Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone) undergo physical and psychological torment at an...

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    Movies

    Dead Man Walking (1988)

    Futuristic tale of a bounty hunter following a trail of ambush and murder in his pursuit of a...

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    Movies

    Battlefield Earth (2000)

    A young man (Barry Pepper) takes a courageous stand against an alien leader (John Travolta) and his...

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    Movies

    9 to 5 (1980)

    Three fed-up secretaries (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton) kidnap their sexist boss and force...

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    Movies

    Sicko (2007)

    Filmmaker Michael Moore diagnoses the malady afflicting America's health-care system and talks about...

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    Movies

    Fame Is the Spur

    A British politician (Michael Redgrave) changes from rabble-rouser of the working class to stodgy...

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    Movies

    The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

    The 1800s French novelist (Paul Muni) defends Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut) against...

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    Movies

    Milk (2008)

    In San Francisco, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) becomes the first openly gay man elected to a notable U.S....