Colonialism Movies

The future Edward VIII enjoys a stately procession and visits the Taj Mahal before meeting senior Indian royalty.

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while...

In this animated short, a self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a flag on the Arctic ice, as a bemused Inuit hunter...

If Only I Were That Warrior is a feature documentary film focusing on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Following the recent construction...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear...

Angolan director and screenwriter Pocas Pascoal reminds us that it’s time for a change, proposing through this film a look at colonialism,...

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 armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless...

Manuel Horrillo has visited for 7 years the fields where the clashes between the Spanish troops and the rebels of the protectorate took place during...

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

In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en...

Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name.

An european artist writes about his experience in portraying life in Brazil during the colonial period. Aporteiro – concierge and security...

«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...

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other...

In 1750, in the glare of the Caribbean, the man who created history known as the forerunner of independence in Venezuela. His name is Francisco de...

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