Colonialism Movies

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...

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

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

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

The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the...

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

Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140 sets of iwi kupuna and...

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

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

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

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...

Idak-Idak-Idak is a hybrid-documentary relating the stolen Lombok Treasures with the Sasak diaspora through three generations of women: a daughter,...

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...

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

Negotiating Amnesia is an essay film based on research conducted at the Alinari Archive and the National Library in Florence. It focuses on the...

The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour.

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

This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to...