Movies: Colonialism

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada.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

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

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...