Defiance may refer to:

Film, television and theatre

* ''Defiance'' (1952 film), a Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander * ''Defiance'' (1980 film), an American crime drama starring Jan-Michael Vincent * ''Defiance'' (2002 film), a western starring Brandon Bollig * ''Defiance'' (2008 film), an American World War II film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber * ''Defiance'' (TV series), a science fiction TV series * ''Defiance'' (play), a 2005 play by John Patrick Shanley * HMAS ''Defiance'', a fictional Australian warship in the TV series ''

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Games

* ''Defiance'' (video game), a 2013 tie-in with the TV series ''Defiance'' * ''Defiance'' (1997 video game), a first-person shooter for Windows * ''Defiance'', an expansion campaign for the computer game '' Independence War'' * '' Legacy of Kain: Defiance'', a 2003 video game

Literature

* ''Defiance'' (book), a 1951 memoir by Savitri Devi * ''Defiance'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Don Brown * ''Defiance'', a novel by

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* ''Defiance: The Bielski Partisans'', a book by Nechama Tec; basis for the 2008 film (see above)

Music

* Defiance (metal band), an American thrash metal band * Defiance (punk band), an American street punk band * ''Defiance'' (EP), a 1994 EP by the punk band * ''Defiance'' (Assemblage 23 album), 2002 * ''Defiance'' (Deströyer 666 album), 2009 * ''Defiance'' (Lahannya album), 2009 * ''Defiance'', an album by Jack Starr's Burning Starr, 2009 * ''Defiance'', an album by Pro-jekt, 2006 * ''Defiance'', an EP by

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, 2022 * Defiance Records, a German record label

Maritime

* HMS ''Defiance'', nineteen ships of the British Royal Navy * USS ''Defiance'', three ships of the U.S. Navy * ''Defiance'' (steamboat), a vessel in the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet in the early 1900s * ''Defiance'' (yacht), a participant in the 1914 America's Cup * SS ''Empire Defiance'', a ship in the Empire series in the service of the British Government * CSS ''Defiance'', a ship in the Confederate River Defense Fleet during the American Civil War

Places in the United States

* Defiance, Iowa * Defiance, Kentucky * Defiance, Missouri (St. Charles county) * Defiance, Missouri (Worth county) a 19th-century town * Defiance, Ohio ** Defiance College ** Defiance High School (Ohio) ** Defiance Regional Medical Center *

Defiance County, Ohio Defiance County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,286. Its county seat and largest city is Defiance. The county was named after an early Army fortification, Fort Defiance, which was ...

Defiance Township, Ohio Defiance Township is one of the twelve townships of Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 13,216 people in the township. Geography Located in the southeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Nob ...

* Defiance, Pennsylvania *

Mount Defiance (New York) Mount Defiance is an high hill on the New York (state), New York side of Lake Champlain, in the northeastern United States. It is notable in that the hill militarily dominates both Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence (Vermont), Mount Indep ...

, a hill in New York

Other uses

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, a 1951 anti-apartheid initiative by the African National Congress *

Defiance railway station There are seventeen disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line between Plymouth railway station, Plymouth in Devon and Penzance railway station, Penzance in Cornwall, England. The remains of nine of these can be seen from passing trains. W ...

, 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, a Union camp in Kansas during the American Civil War * Defiance Cycle Company, a cycle manufacturer formed in Wales in 1880 * Defiance Wrestling Federation, a defunct

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* Project Defiance, A short-lived superhero team lead by

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