The Best Movies About Loss of Personal Liberties
List Rules
Films that deal with issues of personal liberties and human rights.
List of the best movies involving personal liberties being taken away. This list features award-winning movies that tackle the issues of personal liberty and the right as a human being to live freely. Whether it is a film about slavery, like Oscar-winner 12 Years a Slave from 2013 or a film depicting a tyrannical government regime, like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, this list as them all and you have the personal right to watch them!
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When it comes to freedom of speech being under attack, great films like Good Night, and Good Luck with George Clooney or The Front with Woody Allen speak to a time of American McCarthyism and Hollywood blacklisting. Similarly, the exploitation of religious freedom is depicted with such taste in the Academy Award winning movie Life is Beautiful. This list, which would make the ACLU probably want to sue somebody, contains movies that are brand spanking new (Elysium) and black-and-white old (12 Angry Men). Civil liberties are the antagonists' worst nightmares in these critically acclaimed feature films.
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When it comes to freedom of speech being under attack, great films like Good Night, and Good Luck with George Clooney or The Front with Woody Allen speak to a time of American McCarthyism and Hollywood blacklisting. Similarly, the exploitation of religious freedom is depicted with such taste in the Academy Award winning movie Life is Beautiful. This list, which would make the ACLU probably want to sue somebody, contains movies that are brand spanking new (Elysium) and black-and-white old (12 Angry Men). Civil liberties are the antagonists' worst nightmares in these critically acclaimed feature films.
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1Donald Pleasence, Michael Redgrave, Edmond O'Brien- Released: 1956
- Directed by: Michael Anderson
1984 is a 1956 film, based freely on the novel of the same name by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future society. This is the first cinema rendition of the story, directed by Michael ...more
2Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley![Fahrenheit 451]()
3Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack- Released: 1966
- Directed by: François Truffaut
Adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel about a future society that has banned all reading material and the job of the firemen is to keep the fires at 451 degrees: the temperature that paper burns. AÂ ...moreAvailable On:
- 4Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
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5Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield- 6Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
