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True Stories of Quiet Defiance

A run of recent fact-based dramas to watch when you want one person's stubborn dignity set against a system built to grind it down — a teacher, a student, a boy, a woman, each refusing the verdict handed to them.

Mostly humane, accessible crowd-pleasers anchored by one piece of demanding art-house filmmaking (Nickel Boys); safe to recommend widely, but save the two heaviest for when you're ready for genuinely devastating true-life injustice.