Defiance
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Film and theatre

  • Defiance (1980 film)
    Defiance (1980 film)
    Defiance is a 1980 American film starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Art Carney, and Theresa Saldana.Early Jerry Bruckheimer production. Jan-Michael Vincent portrays a suspended young seaman who takes up temporary housing in a neighborhood overrun by a gang, while waiting for his next orders to ship out....

    , a film starring Jan-Michael Vincent
  • Defiance (2008 film)
    Defiance (2008 film)
    Defiance is a 2008 World War II era film written, produced, and directed by Edward Zwick, set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The film is an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by three Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Poland during the Second World War...

    , a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber
  • Defiance (play)
    Defiance (play)
    Defiance is a 2005 play by American playwright John Patrick Shanley. The play concerns a colonel who promotes a black officer solely based on race...

    , a play by John Patrick Shanley

Games

  • Defiance, an expansion campaign for the computer game Independence War
  • Legacy of Kain: Defiance
    Legacy of Kain: Defiance
    Legacy of Kain: Defiance is an action-adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos. It is the fifth and thus far final game in the Legacy of Kain series. It was released in North America in November and December 2003, and in Europe in February 2004...

    , a video game

Literature

  • Defiance (book)
    Defiance (book)
    Defiance is a book, first published 1951 in Calcutta, by Savitri Devi. It is a memoir of her arrest, trial, and imprisonment on the charge of distributing National Socialist propaganda in Germany in 1949....

    , a memoir by Savitri Devi
  • Defiance, a novel by Kenneth Bulmer
    Kenneth Bulmer
    Henry Kenneth Bulmer was a British author, primarily of science fiction.-Life:Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and were divorced in 1981...

  • Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, a book by Nechama Tec
    Nechama Tec
    Nechama Tec is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University, where she studied and worked with the highly-regarded sociologist Daniel Bell, and is a noted Holocaust scholar...

    ; basis for the 2008 film (see above)

Music

  • Defiance (band)
    Defiance (band)
    Defiance is a thrash metal band from Oakland, California. While virtually unknown to mainstream metal and rock circles, Defiance is known as one of the classic second-tier thrash bands to come from the Bay Area thrash metal scene...

    , an American thrash metal band
  • Defiance (punk band)
    Defiance (punk band)
    Defiance are an anarcho street punk band from Portland, Oregon formed in 1993. Their discography includes five E.P.s, four full-lengths, and one album of out of print and rare songs...

    , an American street punk band
  • Defiance (EP)
    Defiance (EP)
    Defiance is the self-titled debut EP by the American anarcho street punk band Defiance, released on Consensus Reality Records on 1994.- Track listing :A side*Too Close to Being Over – 2:18*Affect Change – 2:29B side*Fodder – 2:50...

    , an EP by the punk band
  • Defiance (Assemblage 23 album)
  • Defiance (Deströyer 666 album)
    Defiance (Deströyer 666 album)
    - Track listing :# Weapons of Conquest - 03:03# I Am Not Deceived - 04:37# Blood For Blood - 05:14# The Barricades Are Breaking - 03:38# A Stand Defiant - 04:46# The Path to Conflict - 04:37# A Thousand Plagues - 04:24# Human All Too Human - 06:04...

  • Defiance (Lahannya album)
  • Defiance (Pro-jekt album), an album by Pro-jekt
    Pro-jekt
    Pro-jekt are a band, and they also sometimes describe themselves as Gothic metal. It has also been said that they have a darkwave sound. They were formed in January 2000, in Derbyshire, England. They engineered and financed their own demo album, and later signed to Nightbreed Recordings Ltd, in...

  • Defiance Records
    Defiance Records
    Defiance Records is a record label based in Cologne, Germany, which is the German and European distributor of several American and international post-hardcore and punk bands.-Current Artists:* Alesana* Alexisonfire* Ambrose* As Friends Rust...

    , a German record label

Maritime

  • HMS Defiance (disambiguation), nineteen ships of the British Royal Navy
  • USS Defiance (disambiguation), three ships of the U.S. Navy
  • Defiance (steamboat)
    Defiance (steamboat)
    The steamboat Defiance operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years this vessel was called Kingston.-Career:...

    , a vessel in the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet in the early 1900s
  • Defiance (yacht)
    Defiance (yacht)
    Defiance was a yacht built by George Owen for a syndicate of New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston sportsmen headed by George M. Pynchon to compete in the trials to select the defender for the 1914 America's Cup. The outbreak of World War I in 1914 caused the Cup races for that year to be delayed...

    , a participant in the 1914 America's Cup
  • CSS Defiance, a ship in the Confederate River Defense Fleet
    River Defense Fleet
    The River Defense Fleet was a set of fourteen vessels in Confederate service, intended to assist in the defense of New Orleans in the early days of the American Civil War...

     during the American Civil War

Places

  • Defiance, Iowa
    Defiance, Iowa
    Defiance is a city in Shelby County, Iowa, United States, along the West Branch of the West Nishnabotna River. The population was 346 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Defiance is located at ....

    , U.S.
  • Defiance, Missouri
    Defiance, Missouri
    Defiance is an unincorporated community in Saint Charles County, Missouri, located on state highway 94.-Situation:The Katy Trail State Park runs through Defiance near the Missouri River. This was the final home of frontiersman Daniel Boone, who settled in the Femme Osage Valley in 1799 after...

    , U.S.
  • Defiance, Ohio
    Defiance, Ohio
    As of the census of 2000, there were 16,465 people, 6,572 households, and 4,422 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,562.4 people per square mile . There were 7,061 housing units at an average density of 670.0 per square mile...

    , U.S.
    • Defiance College
      Defiance College
      Defiance College, located in Defiance, Ohio, USA, is an independent, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The campus includes eighteen buildings and access to the Thoreau Wildlife Sanctuary....

    • Defiance High School (Ohio)
    • Defiance Regional Medical Center
      Defiance Regional Medical Center
      Defiance Regional Medical Center is a public hospital in Defiance, Ohio that is part of the ProMedica Health System.Their cafeteria is very popular with local residents; between January and June 2004, the number of meals served on Sundays more than doubled....

  • Defiance Township, Defiance County, Ohio
    Defiance Township, Defiance County, Ohio
    Defiance Township is one of the twelve townships of Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 13,461 people in the township, 11,601 of whom lived in the city of Defiance, and 1,860 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern...

    , U.S.
  • Defiance County, Ohio
    Defiance County, Ohio
    As of the census of 2000, there were 39,500 people, 15,138 households, and 11,020 families residing in the county. The population density was 96 people per square mile . There were 16,040 housing units at an average density of 39 per square mile...

    , U.S.
  • Defiance, Pennsylvania
    Defiance, Pennsylvania
    Defiance is a small village in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The village is home to approximately 100 residents. It is located along Six Mile Run Road in Broad Top Township, Pennsylvania...

    , U.S.
  • Mount Defiance
    Mount Defiance
    Mount Defiance is an high hill on the New York side of Lake Champlain, in the northeastern United States. It is notable in that the hill militarily dominates both Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Independence, but it was deemed inaccessible so never fortified. Mount Defiance was previously known as...

    , a hill in New York, U.S.

Other uses

  • Defiance Campaign
    Defiance Campaign
    The Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws was presented by the African National Congress at a conference held in Bloemfontein, South Africa in December 1951....

    , a 1951 anti-apartheid initiative by the African National Congress
  • Defiance railway station, or Defiance Platform, a disused station on the Plymouth to Penzance Line in the UK
  • Defiance Technologies, part of the Hinduja Group, a provider of IT, ERP and engineering services
  • Camp Defiance
    Camp Defiance
    In December 1861 Potosi, Kansas, along the Kansas-Missouri border, was attacked by Confederate guerrillas. Very soon Col. James Montgomery stationed the Kansas 3rd Regiment about to the northeast....

    , a Union camp in Kansas during the American Civil War

See also

  • Defiance, Ohio (band)
    Defiance, Ohio (band)
    Defiance, Ohio is an acoustic punk rock band from Columbus, Ohio. They are known for their extensive touring and intense, enthusiastic live shows. They are named after the real town Defiance, Ohio. The band features a violin, cello, and double bass...

     an American folk-punk band
  • Fort Defiance (disambiguation)
  • Point Defiance (disambiguation)
  • Defiant (disambiguation)
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