Colonialism Movies

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

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

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

Chileans are asked about their definition of the word (and the concept of) "power", as they answer images flash on the screen of powerful and...

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

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

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

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

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

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

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

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

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colonial administrators and Algerian...

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

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada.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

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...

The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias.

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

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...

Prejudices, ignorance, and racism still leave their mark on the everyday life of black Germans, respectively Europeans, until today. How do...