Resisting the Tyranny of the Masses

Here is a list of media I recommend where the underlying theme is "resisting the tyranny of the masses." By this I mean that someone woke up, realized that the masses have made a bad trade for their safety and security, and tries to restore something lost to society.

Network

Blade Runner

V for Vendetta

A Scanner Darkly

Soylent Green

Brazil

Zardoz

Civil Disobedience

MICROCOSMOGRAPHIA ACADEMICA

1984

Brave New World

Catch 22

The Razors Edge

Repent Harlequin said the Tick Tock Man

The Mouse that Roared

Tambu

From Again Dangerous Visions

• Bedsheets are White
  
• For Value Received
  
• The Funeral
  
• Bounty
  
• In the Barn
  
• Soundless Evening
  
• Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon
  
• Moth Race
  
• A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village
  

From Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 1999

• Maneki Neko
  
• Solitude
  
• First Tuesday