Colonialism Movies

A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and...

This documentary questions the consequences of the German colonial war at the beginning of the 20th Century in South West Africa, and explores how...

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

Atikamekw elder Cézar Néwashish continues to recount the history of the community of Manawan that first began in The History of...

Directed by Ahmed Bedjaoui et al.

Talia is a 19-year-old Belgian girl, with Senegalese roots, who is visiting her country of origin for the first time. In Dakar, in his cousin's...

"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...

This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to...

The life of the people of the Naga Hills, Assam, including sports activities and tribal ceremonies, presented within a fictional framework.

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

Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.

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

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain...

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

Tabataba tells the story of a small Malagasy village during the independence uprising which took place in 1947 in the south of the country. For...

Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black...

A short film created (and narrated) in 1985 by Québécois director Pierre Falardeau. It compares English rule in Ghana with Canadian...

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they call him Timuti, a name that recurs across...

17-year-old Giddy spends a week in England seeking reconnection with her queer and estranged sister, Julie. On the night of Julie’s 24th...

What threads of history bind Manhattan's Ground Zero to those of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or connect sight to truth, games to war, or the silkworm to...