Colonialism Movies

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most...

Six Black women throw themselves overboard to escape a slave ship bound for America. Based on Jericó Montilla's play of the same name (a free...

A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...

Talia is a 19-year-old Belgian girl, with Senegalese roots, who is visiting her country of origin for the first time. In Dakar, in his cousin's...

The future Edward VIII visits his Empire, with Indian royalty, elephants, palaces and temples.

Documentation of the encroachment of European settlers upon Native American lands and the violent reaction of the Indians in their struggle to...

Educated under colonial rule, a determined young man from Tanah Karo enlists in a paramilitary unit under the false promise of liberation, ultimately...

For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under different colonial rules. From the Dutch, the Spanish, the Japanese, and nowadays Republic of China,...

Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th century. The square is still at the heart of social...

Working from archives of private film footage from a trip to India by the upper class of the late 1920s, a period of strong anti-colonial outbreak,...

Three demonstrators from October 17, 1961, and a journalist recount the peaceful success of the demonstration and its brutal repression in the...

The film recounts in three parts by three different directors the Algerian people's struggle for independence after 130 years of French colonization:...

This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is...

After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is...

History Channel documentary which chronicles the history of Hawai'i and the rarely told story of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy by the...

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control,...

A man steals a huge diamond and sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy for a Zulu prince.

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...