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In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

After the United States Congress redirected its attention to the Civil War and stopped making treaty land payments to the Dakota Indians, causing their people to starve, an uprising began that would later be called "The Indian Wars."

The leaders of Egypt's 2011 revolution discuss the fire, courage and resiliency behind their movement to remove President Hosni Mubarak from office.

From the makers of the award winning films The Continuum and Harvest sking videos. This film from Teton Gravity Research encompases six countries, seven helicopters, fouteen mountain ranges, and twenty of the best skiers and snowboarders on the planet. Travel the globe with the TGR crew witnessing first descents, exploring new terrain and visiting places most people have never heard of. Uprising is a classic ski and snowboard film covering the progression of freeskiing and snowboarding. Nobis, Svenwick, Jeremy Jones and others ride sick locations throughout the world. A must see!

Uprising is all action film with intense sequences of airs, carves and new maneuvers on the made for ripping walls of Lower Trestles. An epic battle from the best surfers in the world in a one hundred percent free surfing bananza. This is the hottest freshest action to date. Bonus features include huge Wedge from hurricane Marie and State of The Art surfing by the best woman surfers in the world. All set to epic music by Cruzmatik.

The robot uprising begins exactly as you'd expect -- with murderous Roomba's vacuuming old ladies to death, hordes of driverless Priuses marauding the streets, and your bathroom scale cracking mean-ass jokes about your weight. Alright, maybe it's not exactly how you'd expect. But when the robots built to serve us start tea-bagging, dry-humping, and kill-shotting humanity out of existence -- gaming supernerd Bernie Meckler knows he alone holds the key to survival. Can Bernie and his super-slacker friends survive horrific murderbot onslaughts, Godzilla-sized Cranebots, AND living in a van with each other for an entire week?

This movie is about the liberation by the Sandinistas of the Anastasio Somoza regime in NIcaragua. The movie covers some of te key points in the fight for León, a city close to the capital Managua, and the first liberated territory. Many of the inhabitants of León who participated in the guerrilla and members of the sandinista army participated in the film.

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.

In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together — one the master and one the servant — reunite post-war as enemies on opposing sides.

There is a visitor for local herb gatherer Doggie who has no particular need or greed for anything. His friend Chang-guk who is wanted to failure in his business and his captivating wife Seon-hwa come to see Doggie who has no choice but to give them a place to hide. The three of them end up living umcomfortably together. Will Doggie be able to suppress his desires for his friend's wife? And what is her secret that Doggie must never know?

The legendary story of a folk hero's rebellion against an oppressive empire, fighting for his freedom and forever altering the course of Yoruba history.

Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a seat in Japan's Upper House.

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

A docudrama about the historical uprising (1875-1877) led by the Christian Serb population against the Ottoman Empire, firstly and predominantly in Herzegovina, from where it spread into Bosnia and Raška.

1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Infighting leads to suppression by the samurai class, and the farmers band together for battle. It’s a moment of injustice, setting the stage for bravery and sacrifice. However those daring characters remain largely offscreen in Juichiro Yamasaki’s brilliant film. Instead, the cowardly protagonist Jihei (Naohisa Nakagaki) faces a crisis of the risks of rebellion and its aftermath that resonates with our contemporary moment. In this rare independent jidaigeki, Kenta Tawara’s beautiful digital B&W photography channels and refigures luminaries of classical Japanese cinema, boasting rapturous animated sequences by Tomomichi Nakamura and experimental score by Ayako Sasaki.

If they look down on you, it’s over. That’s why you’ve got to crush them completely!” After going way too far and landing in juvie, Tatsuya finally gets out, only to find that his old crew has scattered and already moved on with their lives. One day, he goes to check out a popular martial arts event. But when one of the fighters bails at the last minute, Tatsuya ends up stepping into the ring in his place. Despite getting beaten to a pulp by a powerful opponent, he pulls off a comeback victory. However, that win puts a target on his back. A challenge arrives for WARU — a tournament to decide who’s the strongest street fighter. The heart of the rabid dog that had been lying dormant starts to burn again. With his new trainer Itagaki, Tatsuya begins his journey as a fighter, aiming for the top

In May of 1949, director Zhang Ying and screenwriter Zhang Che took people to Taiwan to shoot a film that reflected Taiwan's Gaoshan tribe. Unexpectedly, when it was completed, it coincided with the war between the KMT and the Communist Party in Shanghai. Later, the Kuomintang government completely withdrew from Shanghai to Taiwan, and the film crew stayed in Taiwan. The film was also premiered in Taiwan, becoming the first feature film in Taiwanese film history. The episode "High Mountain Green" was widely sung that year and became a classic in film music.

In the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influence diminishing as well as getting increased taxes from Catholic-friendly government officers. The conflict became a religious war that resulted in a rebel Confucian army massacring hundreds of Christians in little more than a matter of days. The Uprising details the events leading up to the assault, focusing on the story of Yi Jae-su, the young man destined to become the leader of the rebel army.

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My Uprising II is a multimedia project realized for young people at the time of the 75th anniversary of the SNP with the aim of introducing them to this event through stories of individual heroism of ordinary people. The basis of the project is a series of six film stories produced in cooperation with RTVS, in which the main characters are portrayed by well-known personalities of today.

After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.

Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers.

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

This film tells the story of lieutenant Stefan Wyszynski (Ksawery Szlenkier) - the future Primate of Poland, unknown to a wider audience. It is 1944, in the heat of war, we meet a young priest Wyszynski, who has recently been appointed chaplain of the branch in the Kampinos Forest. It is also active in the insurgent hospital. Everyone knows him there under the pseudonym "Radwan III". The reality of the war is for Fr. Wyszynski, a forge of character, a fight for hope and love, especially against enemies. How are we to forgive in everyday warfare? The hero asks, turning to the Source of his vocation.

Nazi soldiers committed atrocities even when sober – and if they got drunk, they did even worse. The inhabitants of a Slovak village during the national uprising learn this when they have to accept an arrogant Hitlerite guard. When two soldiers go missing, the unit commander threatens to have five hostages executed for each of them as a warning. And he refuses to change his order, even when it turns out that drunkenness is to blame for the unfortunate incident. But the villagers get justifiably angry and take up arms.

In September 1923, during the so-called 'anti-fascist' uprising, police chief's daughter Kita falls for a student with communist beliefs. Although loyal to the monarch, her father's paternal instinct force him to compromise but his retaliation against the rebels takes a devastating turn.

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

With the aid of a magic carpet, the true heir to an Arabian caliphate leads an uprising against the pretender oppressing his people.

The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. Seeing as the soldiers beat defenceless people, mainly students, to death, the citizens are in for retaliation and form a militia.

In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners.

Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being systematically eliminated by a mysterious assassin. An arrogant master swordsman is in charge of putting an end to the carnage.

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.

A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before.

Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.

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Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.

Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the time spent with Yoon-hee, a woman who gave him shelter and companionship.

20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Uprising in Korea in 1980, happens to find a skull in the ground one day. Driving his excavator, he pays visits to his former superiors one by one and realizes they were all both assailants and victims of the times.