Colonialism Movies

Documentary about the coup d'état by Hugo Chávez against the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez, in Venezuela.

The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and...

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and...

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian...

Negotiating Amnesia is an essay film based on research conducted at the Alinari Archive and the National Library in Florence. It focuses on the...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Sahara, is the starting point of France's nuclear...

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger...

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

Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her...

[ÒDIO] is a polyphonic work that resonates as a choral dramaturgy: a fabric of gazes and contrasting testimonies on the spread of violence,...

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

Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian...

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams...

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This...

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

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually...

In this short film, artist Jobie Weetaluktuk turns his gaze on his family and the power of ritual through the story of a young woman and her...