Guerrilla Warfare - Popular Culture

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See also: Fictional resistance movements and groups
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls, an Ernest Hemingway novel which tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.
  • Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943), a 20th Century Fox movie on the guerrilla resistance movement of General Draza Mihailovich in German-occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
  • Undercover (1943), a British film produced by Ealing Studios, released in the US by Columbia pictures as Underground Guerrillas.
  • The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.
  • The 1981 anime series Fang of the Sun Dougram focuses heavily on the exploits of a team of guerrilla fighters working to bring independence to their home planet.
  • Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica which focuses on the guerrilla war against the Cylons by the former citizens of the Twelve Colonies on New Caprica.
  • The Tomorrow series by John Marsden about guerrilla warfare after a fictional invasion and occupation of Australia.
  • Che, Steven Soderbergh's two-part 2008 biopic about Che Guevara starring Benicio del Toro as Che.
  • Red Faction: Guerrilla, a game in which the player is a guerrilla fighting an entrenched enemy.
  • "Guerrilla Radio", a 1999 rock song by Rage Against the Machine.
  • "Red Dawn", a 1984 American war film about a group of high school students become engaged in guerrilla warfare after their country is invaded by Cubans and Russians.
  • "Defiance", a 2000's movie about guerrilla fighters in 1940's Belarus against the Nazis.

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