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Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. [1] This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.
The film was known as Captain Dreyfus before being retitled I Accuse. [4] Due to the film's unflattering portayal of the French military, the government refused to allow filming in Paris. [5] Instead, the film was shot on-location in Belgium, West Germany, and MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, England. [6] Filming finished by June 1957. [7]
This is an index of articles that features lists of films based on real-life events. As new entries are produced, they should be included to ensure the list remains current and complete. List of films based on actual events (before 1940)
Gods and Generals is a 2003 American epic war drama film written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. [2] It is an adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Jeffrey Shaara [3] and prequel to Maxwell's 1993 film Gettysburg.
The Offence is a 1973 British crime neo noir drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Trevor Howard and Vivien Merchant. [2] The screenplay was by John Hopkins based on his 1968 stage play This Story of Yours. [1] A police officer suffers a breakdown and kills a suspect.
The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, Sally's eventual capture, and subsequent trial for treason in Washington D.C. after the war. The movie is all about the court trial to prove that Axis Sally is a traitor to her country.
Guilty of Treason is a 1950 American drama film directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Charles Bickford, Bonita Granville and Paul Kelly.Also known by the alternative title Treason, it is an anti-communist and anti-Soviet film about the story of József Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary. [1]
The offence was (and in the United States still is) a misdemeanour punishable on indictment by fine and imprisonment. Under the old common law hierarchy of crimes (as treasons, felonies and misdemeanours), misprision of treason was a felony and misprision of felony was a misdemeanour. (There was no such offence as misprision of a misdemeanour.)