Colonialism Movies

Documentary about the coup d'état by Hugo Chávez against the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez, in Venezuela.

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

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...

By means of a chronological arrangement of historical video material from the Istituto Luce archives, it tells the story of Fascist Italy's ambitions...

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

On October 17, 1961, in response to the curfew imposed on Muslim Algerians by Paris police prefect Maurice Papon, the FLN Federation of France...

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and...

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

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

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide...

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood...

Guillermo Gómez Álvarez explores the identity politics of Puerto Rico via archival footage from various sources that clash with nine...

In 1832 the government of Van Diemen’s Land sent the last Aboriginal resistance fighters into exile at Wybalenna on Flinders Island, bringing...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and...

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...

Walter Burton's realistic photographs depicting poor treatment of Maori prisoners are rejected by late 19th century government officials. Walter is...