Films like Some Mother's Son
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle t...
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Gandhi
Film · 1982 · also drama and historyIn the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced...
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Hidden Agenda
Film · 1990 · also dramaIn Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Norther...
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Jimmy's Hall
Film · 2014 · also drama and historyIn Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and...
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Riot in Cell Block 11
Film · 1954 · also dramaA prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
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Brute Force
Film · 1947 · also dramaTimeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going...
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Belfast
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyBuddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caug...
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Dog Pound
Film · 2010 · also dramaThree juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Paul, Apostle of Christ
Film · 2018 · also drama and historyLuke risks his life to visit Paul in a Roman prison, where the apostle awaits execution under Nero. As Paul reflects on his past and the Christian community faces persecu...
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Sing Sing
Film · 2024 · also dramaDivine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, h...
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