Movies: Colonialism
- 2009
The Country Upside Down (2009)
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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....
- 1951
Sols volcaniques du parc national Albert (1951)
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Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo...
- 1993
Black Man's Houses (1993)
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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...
- 1928
Nyimsao and Kheseto: A Tale of the Naga Hills (1928)
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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....
- 1936
Gardens of the Orient (1936)
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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...
- 1981
The Battle of Tagrift (1981)
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An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies....
- 2011
365 Without 377 (2011)
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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...
- 1928
Las cuatro plumas (1928)
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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...
- 1969
Hiatos (Gaps) - 2021 (1969)
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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...
- 1969
Almost Arcady (1969)
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Educational film about Cyprus - landscape, people, work, traditions etc....
- 1911
A Fishing Party With the Maharajah of Kapurthala, India (1911)
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The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias....
- 1933
Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal (1933)
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Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan....
- 1935
Native Life in Bundi (1935)
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Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India....
- 1929
India (1929)
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Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi....
- 1922
Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Bikaner, Lucknow, Benares, Nepal and Great Tiger Shoot (1922)
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The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour....
- 1925
Uti (1925)
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Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe....
- 1983
Tiempo de Audacia (1983)
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This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and their sympathizers....
- 1979
Costa Rica Banana Republic (1979)
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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...
- 1913
Justice de fauve (1913)
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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....
- 1988
Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben (1988)
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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...