Movies: Colonialism
- 2023
CARA-B (2023)
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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...
- 1921
Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi (1921)
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The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta....
- 2009
Granny (Muidumbe) (2009)
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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...
- 1975
Potlatch...a strict law bids us dance (1975)
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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...
- 2020
Miss (2020)
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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, ...
- 2009
Gerboise Bleue (2009)
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"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...
- 2013
Kongomüller (2013)
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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...
- 2020
A So-Called Archive (2020)
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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 ...
- 1981
The Battle of Tagrift (1981)
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An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies....
- 1969
In the Shadow of the Serengeti (1969)
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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...
- 2014
Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home (2014)
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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...
- 2009
The Country Upside Down (2009)
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Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name....
- 2021
Melting Snow (2021)
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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....
- 1985
Time of the Leopards (1985)
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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....
- 1991
Tuanku Tambusai (1991)
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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 ...
- 2025
Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée (2025)
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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....
- 1969
Almost Arcady (1969)
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Educational film about Cyprus - landscape, people, work, traditions etc....
- 1922
Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Madras, Bangalore, Mysore and Hyderabad (1922)
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This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt....
- 2019
The Third World (2019)
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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...
- 1954
I Will Speak English (1954)
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'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...