Movies: Colonialism

  • 2023
    CARA-B

    CARA-B (2023)

    CARA-B

    02023HD

    A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power of scientific discourse to produce revisions of the world, the evolution of the concept of the archive...

    CARA-B
  • 1921
    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi (1921)

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi

    01921HD

    The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta....

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi
  • 2009
    Granny (Muidumbe)

    Granny (Muidumbe) (2009)

    Granny (Muidumbe)

    02009HD

    A sequence of archive images filmed by Schefer's grandfather, a former colonial administrator, is the starting point for an experimental documentary on the history and memory of Portuguese decolonisation. Double or split memory: the lived and descrip...

    Granny (Muidumbe)
  • 1975
    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance

    01975HD

    Presents the history of the conflict between the Canadian government and the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific over the ritual of the Potlatch. Archival photographs and films, wax roll sound recordings, police reports, the original potlatch f...

    Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance
  • 2020
    Miss

    Miss (2020)

    Miss

    62020HD

    There is a wrecked car in the Algerian desert. The girl gets in and drives. Apart from sand, there is nothing to see for miles. Searching for a change of scenery, she visits the elderly in her village and the nearby oasis. However, whether shepherd, ...

    Miss
  • 2009
    Gerboise Bleue

    Gerboise Bleue (2009)

    Gerboise Bleue

    102009HD

    "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 power. These are powerful radioactive aerial shots carried out in areas belonging to the French army. Un...

    Gerboise Bleue
  • 2013
    Kongomüller

    Kongomüller (2013)

    Kongomüller

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    After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is looking for listeners and encouragement. He doesn't find either. Instead, the repeated monological memory of hi...

    Kongomüller
  • 2020
    A So-Called Archive

    A So-Called Archive (2020)

    A So-Called Archive

    02020HD

    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 two separate colonial archive buildings - one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United ...

    A So-Called Archive
  • 1981
    The Battle of Tagrift

    The Battle of Tagrift (1981)

    The Battle of Tagrift

    01981HD

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

    The Battle of Tagrift
  • 1969
    In the Shadow of the Serengeti

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti (1969)

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti

    01969HD

    A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania. On the outskirts of Serengeti National Park in East Africa, Maasai face eviction from their land to make way for international tourism and hunt...

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti
  • 2014
    Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home

    Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home (2014)

    Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home

    72014HD

    Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140 sets of iwi kupuna and provides an intimate look into the legacy forged by these committed and passionate few, ensuring that Hawaiians will mālama or...

    Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home
  • 2009
    The Country Upside Down

    The Country Upside Down (2009)

    The Country Upside Down

    02009HD

    Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name....

    The Country Upside Down
  • 2021
    Melting Snow

    Melting Snow (2021)

    Melting Snow

    02021HD

    Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico....

    Melting Snow
  • 1985
    Time of the Leopards

    Time of the Leopards (1985)

    Time of the Leopards

    6.21985HD

    As children, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist were friends. Years have passed and Mozambique is fighting for its independence. Two childhood friends meet on opposing sides....

    Time of the Leopards
  • 1991
    Tuanku Tambusai

    Tuanku Tambusai (1991)

    Tuanku Tambusai

    01991HD

    A dramatisation of the struggles of Sheikh Haji Muhammad Saleh, known as Tuanku Tambusai (Tuanku, an honorific; Tambusai, a nameplace), against the Dutch colonialists (and their factional traditionalist Sumatran collaborators) in Sumatra, during the ...

    Tuanku Tambusai
  • 2025
    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée

    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée (2025)

    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée

    02025HD

    Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th century. The square is still at the heart of social conflicts in Quebec, 150 years later....

    Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée
  • 1969
    Almost Arcady

    Almost Arcady (1969)

    Almost Arcady

    01969HD

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

    Almost Arcady
  • 1922
    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Madras, Bangalore, Mysore and Hyderabad

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Madras, Bangalore, Mysore and Hyderabad (1922)

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Madras, Bangalore, Mysore and Hyderabad

    01922HD

    This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt....

    Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Madras, Bangalore, Mysore and Hyderabad
  • 2019
    The Third World

    The Third World (2019)

    The Third World

    02019HD

    For nine months in 1930, seven Bretons, lobster fishermen, were "forgotten" on a volcanic island by their employers, Normans from Le Havre, heirs of the last French whalers. Four employees would die on the spot. Their descendants today revive the mem...

    The Third World
  • 1954
    I Will Speak English

    I Will Speak English (1954)

    I Will Speak English

    01954HD

    'An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult audiences in the Gold Coast. (..) This is a film with an almost entirely African cast, depicting an African...

    I Will Speak English