Colonialism Movies

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...

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

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

A sequence of archive images filmed by Schefer's grandfather, a former colonial administrator, is the starting point for an experimental documentary...

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

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

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This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada.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

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

«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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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