2019 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner
![A Hidden Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-hidden-life-terrence-malick-image.jpg)
A Hidden Life
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
![Give Me Liberty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/give-me-liberty-kirill-mikhanovsky-image.jpg)
Give Me Liberty
In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride.
![Judy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/judy-rupert-goold-image.jpg)
Judy
Legendary performer Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger) arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
![Midsommar](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/midsommar-image.jpg)
Midsommar
A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
![The Farewell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-farewell-lulu-wang-image.jpg)
The Farewell
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
![The Last Black Man in San Francisco](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-last-black-man-in-san-francisco-joe-talbot-image.jpg)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.
![The Nightingale](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-nightingale-jennifer-kent-image.jpg)
The Nightingale
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker
![The Peanut Butter Falcon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-peanut-butter-falcon-tyler-nilson-michael-schwartz-image.jpg)
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.
![The Souvenir](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-souvenir-joanna-hogg-image.jpg)
The Souvenir
A young film student in the early ’80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
![Wild Rose](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wild-rose-tom-harper-image.jpg)
Wild Rose
A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.