Colonialism Movies

«My grandma had a great strength and love for life which made me believe that some of us were able to become immortals and escape death. When she pass...

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time, ancestry...

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

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

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

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

An european artist writes about his experience in portraying life in Brazil during the colonial period. Aporteiro – concierge and security guard in on...

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the representations of Algeria throughout the...

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 Feve...

Working from archives of private film footage from a trip to India by the upper class of the late 1920s, a period of strong anti-colonial outbreak, Ye...

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

The history of empire. A British bulldog answers his mistress's call. He tacks down the Union Jack to cover the British Isles, then begins playing wit...

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

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

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 t...

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

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...

Directed by Abdelaziz Tolbi.