Colonialism Movies

Atikamekw elder Cézar Néwashish continues to recount the history of the community of Manawan that first began in The History of Manawan: Part One. As...

In 1832 the government of Van Diemen’s Land sent the last Aboriginal resistance fighters into exile at Wybalenna on Flinders Island, bringing an end t...

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

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

Documentary footage of a parade in Antwerp celebrating the annexation of Congo to Belgium.

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

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

Report retracing the military campaigns of the Belgian colonial troops in Africa through geographical maps, title cards, and documentary footage.

Directed by Ahmed Bedjaoui et al.

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

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an exampl...

With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe's A So-Called Archive interrogate the decomposing repositories of Empire. Blending footage shot over the past year i...

For nine months in 1930, seven Bretons, lobster fishermen, were "forgotten" on a volcanic island by their employers, Normans from Le Havre, heirs of t...

An in depth look at the toxic legacy of British colonial-era laws, which criminalise consensual same-sex love, while at the same time allowing perpetr...

«My grandma had a great strength and love for life which made me believe that some of us were able to become immortals and escape death. When she pass...

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

In a strange twist of irony, Americans celebrate their independence on the sovereign lands of the Quileute People. An ambient soundscape coupled with...