Colonialism Movies

  • 1971
    El Fidayoune

    El Fidayoune

    El Fidayoune

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    In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.

    El Fidayoune
  • 1994
    Traps

    Traps

    Traps

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    The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber...

    Traps
  • 2019
    A Story from Africa

    A Story from Africa

    A Story from Africa

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    Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army uses a talented ensign to register the...

    A Story from Africa
  • 1970
    Sampar

    Sampar

    Sampar

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    TOH, a young man in his twenties, searches for Mak, the woman who raised him and has suddenly disappeared. Accompanied by Ara, an observer newly...

    Sampar
  • 2018
    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today

    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today

    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today

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    Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

    Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today
  • 1963
    Ganga Zumba

    Ganga Zumba

    Ganga Zumba

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

    Ganga Zumba
  • 2013
    Kongomüller

    Kongomüller

    Kongomüller

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

    Kongomüller
  • 2021
    The Rumba Kings

    The Rumba Kings

    The Rumba Kings

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    In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

    The Rumba Kings
  • 2018
    Etched in Bone

    Etched in Bone

    Etched in Bone

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    Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one notorious bone theft by a member of the 1948...

    Etched in Bone
  • 2018
    Jones

    Jones

    Jones

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    A short experimental film about a fire hydrant, a busy sidewalk nestled between an electrical post and a building.

    Jones
  • 2011
    Octobre à Paris

    Octobre à Paris

    Octobre à Paris

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    On October 17, 1961, 30,000 Algerians demonstrated peacefully in Paris to protest the discriminatory curfew imposed upon them and to demand Algerian...

    Octobre à Paris
  • 2025
    Sharp Objects

    Sharp Objects

    Sharp Objects

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    ‘Sharp Objects’ follows the forgotten story of the Klungkung keris back to its origins and to its post-colonial relevance to Bali today,...

    Sharp Objects
  • 1993
    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

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    This hour-long documentary is a provocative look at a historical event of which few Americans are aware. In mid-January, 1893, armed troops from the...

    Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation
  • 1933
    Kid 'in' Africa

    Kid 'in' Africa

    Kid 'in' Africa

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    Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.

    Kid 'in' Africa
  • 1988
    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

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    Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who...

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben
  • 2023
    Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

    Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

    Undercurrents: Meditations on Power

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    Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

    Undercurrents: Meditations on Power
  • 2020
    The Explorer

    The Explorer

    The Explorer

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    A former lawyer leaves everything behind to embark on the quest for a dinosaur-like animal supposedly living in Africa's unexplored forests.

    The Explorer
  • 2017
    Holy Angels

    Holy Angels

    Holy Angels

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    Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.

    Holy Angels
  • 2015
    Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema

    Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema

    Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema

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    Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...

    Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema
  • 2026
    Le roi de Shanghai

    Le roi de Shanghai

    Le roi de Shanghai

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    Le roi de Shanghai