Colonialism Movies

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the...

A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by...

In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on...

A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania. On the outskirts of Serengeti National...

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...

Educational film about Cyprus - landscape, people, work, traditions etc.

The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and...

A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and...

Presents a dramatization of the life and death of Isidore Bakanja who was born in the Belgian Congo around 1885. He was converted to Christianity by...

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide...

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

A wealthy painter's attempts to romance Lord Nelson's Daughter is complicated when she falls for his Hindu servant instead.