Colonialism Movies

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams...

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political and social standpoints; evocations of the past are...

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives...

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was...

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from...

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and...

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...

When the Nuxalk trace their vanished ooligan alongside a land claim filed the day smallpox arrived, their radio station becomes courtroom,...

Two high-school students, one French and one Algerian, have grown up together. Their friendship initially crosses the national and political division...

Documentary about the coup d'état by Hugo Chávez against the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez, in Venezuela.

Botanical gardens have long aroused the curiosity and wonder of visitors with exotic species from all over the world. Today they are taking on a new...

Manuel Horrillo has visited for 7 years the fields where the clashes between the Spanish troops and the rebels of the protectorate took place during...

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes...

Montezuma is a 2009 BBC Television documentary film in which Dan Snow examines the reign of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II.

While navigating life with his hyper-protective mother along the enigmatic Outer Banks of North Carolina's coast (site of the first attempted English...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he...

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

Educated under colonial rule, a determined young man from Tanah Karo enlists in a paramilitary unit under the false promise of liberation, ultimately...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian...