Colonialism Movies

  • 1976
    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    6.51976HD

    For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

    And the Dogs Were Silent
  • 1966
    Africa Blood and Guts

    Africa Blood and Guts

    Africa Blood and Guts

    6.1371966HD

    A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from...

    Africa Blood and Guts
  • 2003
    Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

    Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

    Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

    7.22003HD

    This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control,...

    Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
  • 2015
    Embrace of the Serpent

    Embrace of the Serpent

    Embrace of the Serpent

    7.6912015HD

    The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian...

    Embrace of the Serpent
  • 2015
    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    6.92015HD

    The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives...

    The Pearl Button
  • 2020
    The Flood

    The Flood

    The Flood

    4.42020HD

    When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms...

    The Flood
  • 1996
    Unpredictable Nature of the River

    Unpredictable Nature of the River

    Unpredictable Nature of the River

    5.6591996HD

    Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

    Unpredictable Nature of the River
  • 1967
    Hassan Terro

    Hassan Terro

    Hassan Terro

    8.61967HD

    While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive father, unknowingly...

    Hassan Terro
  • 1939
    The Real Glory

    The Real Glory

    The Real Glory

    6.31939HD

    Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous...

    The Real Glory
  • 1973
    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

    7.0361973HD

    Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a...

    Sambizanga
  • 1969
    Burn!

    Burn!

    Burn!

    6.7331969HD

    The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British...

    Burn!
  • 2012
    Timuti

    Timuti

    Timuti

    02012HD

    In this short film, artist Jobie Weetaluktuk turns his gaze on his family and the power of ritual through the story of a young woman and her...

    Timuti
  • 2025
    Sugar Island

    Sugar Island

    Sugar Island

    12025HD

    An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded...

    Sugar Island
  • 1988
    Chocolat

    Chocolat

    Chocolat

    6.91988HD

    On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories...

    Chocolat
  • 1992
    Diên Biên Phu

    Diên Biên Phu

    Diên Biên Phu

    6.4531992HD

    Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and...

    Diên Biên Phu
  • 2023
    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    02023HD

    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...

    CARA-B
  • 1986
    Sarraounia

    Sarraounia

    Sarraounia

    6.3751986HD

    On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black...

    Sarraounia
  • 1995
    The Great White of Lambarene

    The Great White of Lambarene

    The Great White of Lambarene

    51995HD

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

    The Great White of Lambarene
  • 2010
    Black Venus

    Black Venus

    Black Venus

    6.62010HD

    The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams...

    Black Venus
  • 2019
    A Story from Africa

    A Story from Africa

    A Story from Africa

    02019HD

    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