Libertarian themes
A list of movies and TV shows with libertarian themes and messages, whether explicitly or metaphorically, as well as documentaries with libertarian ideas.
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- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsJames NortonVanessa KirbyPeter SarsgaardA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.A look back at the atrocities the USSR committed against Ukraine in the Holodomor and the New York Times coverup.
- DirectorJames McTeigueStarsHugo WeavingNatalie PortmanRupert GravesIn a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsFranka PotenteMatt DamonChris CooperA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.A US black ops asset rejects the assassination program he was brainwashed into and fights the system. A libertarian James Bond.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonFranka PotenteJoan AllenWhen Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.A US black ops asset rejects the assassination program he was brainwashed into and fights the system. A libertarian James Bond.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonEdgar RamírezJoan AllenJason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.A US black ops asset rejects the assassination program he was brainwashed into and fights the system. A libertarian James Bond.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsDenzel WashingtonBruce WillisAnnette BeningThe secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, which leads to the declaration of martial-law.Oddly prescient for its time, warns of the dangers the US government can commit against its citizens by overreacting to fear of terrorism.
- 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.A dramatic look at Edward Snowden's life and heroic actions to bring to light the NSA's illegal spying apparatus.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsEdward SnowdenGlenn GreenwaldWilliam BinneyA documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.The documentary that outlined Snowden's heroic actions and the valiant efforts three journalists made to bring this to light.
- DirectorAlison KlaymanStarsAi WeiweiDan AiLao AiA documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.
- DirectorTed BalakerStarsGeorge CarlinAdam CarollaRon CollinsAn examination of Western society's apparent contemporary intolerance of edgy humor by comedians.
- DirectorAustin BraggMeredith BraggStarsMike FaistCrystal ReedDennis BoutsikarisThe story of Roger Sharpe, the young midwesterner who overturned New York City's 35 year-old ban on pinball machines.
- DirectorCourtney BalakerStarsCallum Keith RennieCatherine KeenerJeanne TripplehornA woman fights a group trying to evict her whole neighborhood and give it to a corporation. In a close decision, the Supreme Court favors the evictions. The corporation never builds anything on the site of her demolished home.A look back at the Suzette Kelo and the Institute for Justice's fight against eminent domain abuse in the Kelo v New London case.
- DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMary Kay BergmanWhen Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame.Tackling free speech issues, the uncensored movie satirizes the lengths people will go to in order to censor foul language, nearly two decades before cancel culture started taking off.
- CreatorTrey ParkerMatt StoneBrian GradenStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneIsaac HayesFollows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.Nobody is safe. South Park will poke fun and satirize anyone, often simply taking reality and expanding it to exponential absurdity. Anti-establishment lessons are sprinkled throughout the shows in hilarious manner.
- CreatorGreg DanielsMichael SchurStarsAmy PoehlerJim O'HeirNick OffermanThe absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.Ron Swanson is hilariously a staunch libertarian working in the government to thwart the government. Although the show gets many of libertarian aspects correct, Swanson is still a caricature and gets some things wrong (what's with him extolling the virtues of the USD??). Nevertheless, he is a libertarian TV character that was written as an important role model for the other characters in the show, a rarity for Hollywood.
- CreatorDavid SimonStarsDominic WestLance ReddickSonja SohnThe Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.A look at the problems of drug prohibition and plays on ideas like a zone for what amounts to a sanctuary zone for drug deals.
- CreatorCraig MazinStarsJessie BuckleyJared HarrisStellan SkarsgårdIn April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
- StarsSteven AveryDolores AveryLaura NiriderFilmed over a 10-year period, Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
- DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsBill MurrayDan AykroydSigourney WeaverThree parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.A group of enterprising academics create a business to solve a weird problem in the neighborhood. The EPA steps in to stop them, to disastrous results.
- DirectorAlex ProyasStarsWill SmithBridget MoynahanBruce GreenwoodIn 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.A new generation of robots go rogue as Asimov's Three Rules for Robotics leads to the conclusion that humans must be imprisoned for their own safety, showing that the rules must be expanded to guarantee freedom instead of solely guarding safety. A great lesson for those that would trade freedom for safety.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsPaul Walter HauserSam RockwellBrandon StanleySecurity guard Richard Jewell is an instant hero after foiling a bomb attack at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but his life becomes a nightmare when the FBI leaks to the media that he is a suspect in the case.
- DirectorPhil LordChristopher MillerStarsChris PrattWill FerrellElizabeth BanksAn ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.
- DirectorTony ScottStarsWill SmithGene HackmanJon VoightA lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
- DirectorKiwi ChowStarsGwyneth HoBenny TaiDue to political restrictions in Hong Kong, this documentary following protestors since 2019, is broken into pieces, each containing interviews and historical context of the conflict.
- StarsMilton FriedmanRobert McKenzieThomas SowellThis was originally a book, made into a ten part television series broadcast on PBS by economists Milton and Rose Friedman that advocates free market principles. The thrust of the series is that the free market works best for all members of society. It provides examples of how the free market engenders prosperity and maintains that it can solve problems where other approaches have failed. The general format is Dr Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof. The series is highly informative and interesting as Dr Friedman describes the various government interventions and "solutions" that generally do far more harm than good.
- StarsPeter DinklageBruce Bueno de MesquitaWaller NewellRuling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the playbook for absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic docuseries.
- DirectorJoe PiscatellaStarsAgnes ChowJoshua 'Chi-Fung' WongWhen the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China's most notorious dissidents.
- StarsJeremy ClarksonKaleb CooperCharlie IrelandFollow Jeremy Clarkson as he attempts to run a farm in the countryside.
- CreatorDavid CraneMarta KauffmanStarsJennifer AnistonCourteney CoxLisa KudrowFollows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty year-old friends living in the Manhattan borough of New York City.