Colonialism Movies

The future Edward VIII visits his Empire, with Indian royalty, elephants, palaces and temples.

Documentary footage of a parade in Antwerp celebrating the annexation of Congo to Belgium.

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

A former lawyer leaves everything behind to embark on the quest for a dinosaur-like animal supposedly living in Africa's unexplored forests.

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one notorious bone theft by a member of the 1948...

Occupation Inc. exposes European businessmen and politicians involved in the economic exploitation of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa and...

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun

Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.

For nine months in 1930, seven Bretons, lobster fishermen, were "forgotten" on a volcanic island by their employers, Normans from Le Havre, heirs of...

'An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult...

While trying by all means to stay out of the bloody turmoil caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive family man, is wrongfully...

Return to al-Ma’in chronicles the multiyear collaboration between Forensic Architecture (FA) and Palestinian historian and Nakba survivor...

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control,...

In a strange twist of irony, Americans celebrate their independence on the sovereign lands of the Quileute People. An ambient soundscape coupled with...

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

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