To be roused is a complex yet powerful thing. It combines a certain uplifting and optimistic idealism with an energized combativeness, inspiring an empowering zeal that suggests one has found something beautiful worth fighting for. It demands a stirring excitement and a hopeful conviction, and, in the context of cinema at least, it has hardly been showcased more pointedly than it is in these movies of boiling emotional stakes and sharp moral surety .

Ranging from action epics of heroes standing against all-consuming evils to plucky sporting biopics that present the purity and power of the human spirit when it is imbued with belief, these films flaunt a soaring, chest-beating bravado that is impossible to resist . Motivational, invigorating, and endlessly empowering, each of these titl

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