The activists featured in the film

Keith Mann, from Rochdale, UK.
Animal rights campaigner and former Animal Liberation Front activist. Involved in animal protection work since the early nineteen eighties. Sentenced in 1994 to fourteen years in prison for Animal Liberation Front actions, later reduced to eleven on appeal. In 2005 he was jailed again after raiding a research laboratory and removing 695 caged mice. He also removed files detailing extensive poisoning programmes using tens of thousands of animals to test Botox, a cosmetic product (such tests are supposedly banned in the UK).

Kevin Kjonaas (Kevin Jonas) from Minneapolis, USA.
Animal rights activist and National Director of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) USA. Involved in animal protection work since the mid nineteen nineties. Currently serving six years in Federal Prison for Conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Protection Act and Conspiracy to Harass using a Telecommunications Device.

Ingrid Newkirk, British-born.
Animal rights activist, author, and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in USA. Involved in animal protection work since the late nineteen seventies. Is famously outspoken about animal rights issues and has been arrested more than twenty times during protest.

Rod Coronado, from Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Eco-anarchist, and animal rights activist. Involved in animal protection work since the mid nineteen eighties. Currently serving eight months in Federal Prison for disrupting a 2004 mountain lion hunt in Sabino Canyon, Arizona.

John Curtin, from Coventry, UK.
Animal rights campaigner and former Animal Liberation Front activist. Involved in animal protection work since the early nineteen eighties. Served time in sixteen separate prisons for Animal Liberation Front actions during the nineteen eighties and nineties.

Jerry Vlasak, from Los Angeles, USA.
Trauma surgeon, physician, animal rights activist, environmentalist, press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office and active campaigner for Stop Huntigdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) USA. Famously outspoken on animal rights issues, he was banned in 2004 from entering the UK on grounds that his presence "would not be conducive to the public good".

Captain Paul Watson, from Toronto, Canada.
Environmentalist and founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1978. Sea Shepherd has established itself as one of the more controversial environmental groups, known for provocative direct action tactics in addition to more conventional protests. However, despite being arrested many times for his activities with the Sea Shepherd all attempts at prosecuting Watson have failed.

Jill Phipps, from Coventry, UK.
Animal rights activist. On 1 February 1995, Jill Phipps was crushed to death under the wheels of an export truck carrying live baby veal calves into Coventry Airport in Baginton, England, to be flown to Amsterdam for distribution across Europe. She was 31 and had been actively involved in animal protection work since the early nineteen eighties.

Nancy Phipps, from Coventry, UK.
Animal rights activist and mother of Jill. Involved in animal protection work for over twenty years. Ardent campaigner with Coventry Animal Alliance, she was briefly imprisoned for breaking into a laboratory in search of evidence of animal testing.

Ronnie Lee, from UK.
Animal rights activist and the founder of the Animal Liberation Front. Involved in animal protection work since the early nineteen seventies when he formed the "Band of Mercy", an offshoot of the Hunt Saboteurs Association. In 1976 he organised 30 activists to set up a new liberation campaign which was prepared to intimidate but was also compassionate, he named it the Animal Liberation Front.

Michele Rokke, from USA.
Animal rights campaigner and undercover investigator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 1997 she spent eight months working inside the laboratories of Huntingdon Life Sciences in New Jersey and filmed damning footage including the live autopsy of a monkey. The footage was later aired on British television.

Dr Steve Best, from, Chicago, USA.
Philosopher, writer and animal rights activist. Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso, working in areas such as philosophy, social and political theory, cultural studies, animal rights, and environmentalism. He is co-founder of the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA), the first group dedicated to the philosophical discussion of animal liberation. In 2005 Best was banned from entering the UK on the grounds that it was considered he was "fomenting and justifying terrorist violence".

Chris Derose, from Brooklyn, USA.
Former police officer, actor, animal rights activist, founder and president of Last Chance For Animals, founder of New Hope for Animals Foundation and recipient of the 1977 ‘Courage of Conscience’ International Peace Award. Arrested 11 times for protesting animal experimentation including the renowned break-in at the UCLA Brain Research Institute in 1988.

Dr Rich McLellan, from, Los Angeles, USA.
Former emergency room physician. Charter member & spokesman for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) USA; media spokesman for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - a nonprofit organisation that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research; co-founder of Animal Legislative Action Network and Animals Elect America.

Mel Broughton, from West Midlands, UK.
Animal rights campaigner and former Animal Liberation Front activist. Co-founder of the campaign group SPEAK, set up to oppose the building of animal research facilites in Cambridge and Oxford. Involved in animal protection work since the early nineteen eighties. Served prison time during the nineteen nineties for Animal Liberation Front actions.

John Feldmann, from Los Angeles, USA.
Musician and producer who sings with the band, Goldfinger. Animal and human rights activist. In 2003, Feldmann's house was raided by the FBI in connection with a campaign against Jerry Greenwalt, the manager of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services, who had been targeted by animal rights activists. Upon the raid by 30 agents, items were taken that were believed to have been related to the campaign, but the charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence. Feldmann sued over the incident and won.