Colonialism Movies

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

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

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

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

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he...

The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour.

The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian...

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.

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

A dramatisation of the struggles of Sheikh Haji Muhammad Saleh, known as Tuanku Tambusai (Tuanku, an honorific; Tambusai, a nameplace), against the...

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white...

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed,...

The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the...

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...

The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour