Movies: Colonialism

  • 2009
    The Country Upside Down

    The Country Upside Down (2009)

    The Country Upside Down

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

    The Country Upside Down
  • 1951
    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert

    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert (1951)

    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert

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    Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo...

    Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert
  • 1993
    Black Man's Houses

    Black Man's Houses (1993)

    Black Man's Houses

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    In 1832 the government of Van Diemen’s Land sent the last Aboriginal resistance fighters into exile at Wybalenna on Flinders Island, bringing an end to the Black War and opening a new chapter in the struggle for justice and survival by Tasmanian Abor...

    Black Man's Houses
  • 1928
    Nyimsao and Kheseto: A Tale of the Naga Hills

    Nyimsao and Kheseto: A Tale of the Naga Hills (1928)

    Nyimsao and Kheseto: A Tale of the Naga Hills

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    The life of the people of the Naga Hills, Assam, including sports activities and tribal ceremonies, presented within a fictional framework....

    Nyimsao and Kheseto: A Tale of the Naga Hills
  • 1936
    Gardens of the Orient

    Gardens of the Orient (1936)

    Gardens of the Orient

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    This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious l...

    Gardens of the Orient
  • 1981
    The Battle of Tagrift

    The Battle of Tagrift (1981)

    The Battle of Tagrift

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    An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies....

    The Battle of Tagrift
  • 2011
    365 Without 377

    365 Without 377 (2011)

    365 Without 377

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    Imposed under the British colonial rule in 1860, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalise any sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex, stigmatising them as 'against the order of nature'. On July 2, 2009 the Delhi High Court pass...

    365 Without 377
  • 1928
    Las cuatro plumas

    Las cuatro plumas (1928)

    Las cuatro plumas

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    Venezuelan adaptation of The Four Featehr by A.E.W. Mason. A story of courage and redemption set in the British Empire's colonial era. When Harry Feversham resigns from his military post before a Sudan campaign, he's branded a coward and given four w...

    Las cuatro plumas
  • 1969
    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021

    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021 (1969)

    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021

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    Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time, ancestry, body and death that intertwine possible paths of transcendence for this state of collective numbne...

    Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021
  • 1969
    Almost Arcady

    Almost Arcady (1969)

    Almost Arcady

    01969HD

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

    Almost Arcady
  • 1911
    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India

    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India (1911)

    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India

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

    A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India
  • 1933
    Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal

    Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal (1933)

    Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal

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    Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan....

    Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal
  • 1935
    Native Life in Bundi

    Native Life in Bundi (1935)

    Native Life in Bundi

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    Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India....

    Native Life in Bundi
  • 1929
    India

    India (1929)

    India

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

    India
  • 1922
    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Bikaner, Lucknow, Benares, Nepal and Great Tiger Shoot

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Bikaner, Lucknow, Benares, Nepal and Great Tiger Shoot (1922)

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Bikaner, Lucknow, Benares, Nepal and Great Tiger Shoot

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

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Bikaner, Lucknow, Benares, Nepal and Great Tiger Shoot
  • 1925
    Uti

    Uti (1925)

    Uti

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    Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe....

    Uti
  • 1983
    Tiempo de Audacia

    Tiempo de Audacia (1983)

    Tiempo de Audacia

    01983HD

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

    Tiempo de Audacia
  • 1979
    Costa Rica Banana Republic

    Costa Rica Banana Republic (1979)

    Costa Rica Banana Republic

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    This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an example the production and marketing of bananas and the prevailing conditions in the world market - domina...

    Costa Rica Banana Republic
  • 1913
    Justice de fauve

    Justice de fauve (1913)

    Justice de fauve

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

    Justice de fauve
  • 1988
    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben (1988)

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

    01988HD

    Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who disappeared to faraway Germany. Else became an old woman who had suffered all her life from remaining f...

    Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben