While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

There’s a scene toward the end of the BBC docudrama Prisoner 951 when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British Iranian mother held hostage in Iran for six years, pushes back against the cruel mind games ...