The Uprising (2026)

What earned the score

• Alyce as Rebel Fighter

  Alyce joins the armed forces dragging wealthy priests from churches and beats them while demanding that they repent. She is presented in the traditionally male role of a physical fighter within the rebellion.

• Coercive Sexualized Inspections of Teen Girls

  The king’s guards slam teenage girls against a wall and reach beneath their skirts to determine whether they have come of age, while the girls cry and their families protest. The scene depicts the age check as coercive, invasive sexualized contact with minors.

• Crown as Oppressive Institution

  The conflict is driven by commoners resisting excessive royal taxes and demanding political change; the king’s forces also attack people who have laid down their weapons. The crown is framed as a source of harm, with ordinary people bearing the consequences of its rule.

• Faith Weaponized by Clergy

  Priests tell the ploughman that plague and abuse are part of God’s plan, guilt him into taking up arms, and officials claim God wills the rebels’ deaths. Religious authority is portrayed as a tool for coercing the poor and legitimizing violence.

• Prayer Shown as Ineffectual

  Richard and his mother repeatedly pray for help, but the prayers do not improve his rule, and he ultimately presides over a massacre. The story uses their failed appeals to cast Christian prayer as powerless amid the kingdom’s violence.

Details

As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.

Starring

Andrew GarfieldJamie BellStephen DillaneWoody NormanTom Hollander

Director

Paul Greengrass

Writer

Paul Greengrass

Genre

ActionDramaHistory

Release Date

Sep 10, 2026

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  Male guards forcibly take hold of young girls and stick their hands up their dresses to "check if they are of age." This occurs as the central and background focus of a scene that lasts for several minutes at the beginning of the film.

  There is discussion of a female character's personal experience of a rape and the aftermath. This is meant to incite sympathetic rage with the peasants' plight and may be upsetting to some viewers.

  Grown men with hands up girls dresses..

• Violence Severe

  3 mens decapitated heads are placed on the ends of spears and raised in the air.

  In the beginning of the film a man is beat to death. His head is shown for about 2 seconds, showing a brutal beating.

  A man's head is sliced off by an axe. His body falls and blood spews out of his neck.

  Moments of heavy violence occur throughout, but most of the time the gore is brief and cannot be seen from camera angles and shakes, but splatters can be seen.

  Throats are slit, spilling blood. Small splatters during action sequences. You can see people repeatedly beating others, but the person getting beat is not shown, but the person beating is.

  A man's head is lifted out of a basket, and it it is very bloody.

  A person's throat is cut resulting in bloody detail and there are scenes of decapitations.

  Battlefield sequences include blood spurts as characters are slashed and stabbed with blades.

  Milder scenes include sword fights, use of bows and arrows, punches, headbutts and beatings.

  Scenes include blood spurting from the neck of a headless corpse, close-up of severed heads and battlefields strewn with bloodied corpses.

• Profanity None
• Drugs Mild

  Ale is a drink shown in the film.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  At the very end of the film the main character threatens a man, and then seconds later, the film ends with a loud scream which is very eerie and unsettling.

  The action and fights can be very sudden and brutal. Some sequences can be very intense and disturbing.

  A person is restrained as a noose is prepared.

  Characters are threatened with knives and violence.

  Characters are grabbed, intimidated and interrogated by rebel groups.

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