Colonialism Movies

With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe's A So-Called Archive interrogate the decomposing repositories of Empire. Blending footage shot over the past year...

In this animated short, a self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a flag on the Arctic ice, as a bemused Inuit hunter...

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

For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under different colonial rules. From the Dutch, the Spanish, the Japanese, and nowadays Republic of China,...

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain...

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

Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

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

Ice has always moved. When glaciation took hold some 34 million years ago, interconnected rivers of ice combined to produce the Earth's vast ice...

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

Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion.

A short film created (and narrated) in 1985 by Québécois director Pierre Falardeau. It compares English rule in Ghana with Canadian...

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140 sets of iwi kupuna and...

Embark on a journey of discovery in Madagascar with Alexandre and Sonia Poussin, Philaé, 10 years old, and Ulysse, 7 years old, along with...