Captain Harlock

Based on Leiji Matsumoto's manga Captain Harlock.  In the 30th century, the Earth and its colonies lost a bitter war with the forces of the Illumidas, a race of aliens who exist only to conquer.  Now the once-proud inhabitants of Earth live as slaves -- at least the lucky ones.  Only the pirate Harlock declared he would not be a party to the occupation.  With the aid of Tochiro (perhaps the greatest mechanical engineer of his time), and a crew of idealistic outcasts, Harlock left Earth in the magnificent space galleon Arcadia, to live a renegade's life in the "sea of stars." But in his heart, he could never truly abandon the land of his birth, nor the people who, without his leadership, would be subjegated forever.