Colonialism Movies

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

Documentation of the encroachment of European settlers upon Native American lands and the violent reaction of the Indians in their struggle to...

The Indonesian rebels want to get rid of the evil Dutch occupiers, but they are too strong so they have to create a super commando unit with their...

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

After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is...

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

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion.

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,...

Report retracing the military campaigns of the Belgian colonial troops in Africa through geographical maps, title cards, and documentary footage.

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.

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

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

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

In a British barrack in India is confined a tamed gorilla which has conceived a hatred for one of the Hindoo attendants, owing to the barbarous...

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...

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