Colonialism Movies

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

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control,...

'An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult...

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded...

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

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

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial...

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

In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on...

This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur"as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the...

Documentary about the Holy Angels Residential School in Alberta, where hundreds of First Nations children were imprisoned.

A sequence of archive images filmed by Schefer's grandfather, a former colonial administrator, is the starting point for an experimental documentary...

You Have Struck A Rock! commemorates the special contribution of South African women to the success of the anti-apartheid struggle. It recovers the...

This hour-long documentary is a provocative look at a historical event of which few Americans are aware. In mid-January, 1893, armed troops from the...

A man steals a huge diamond and sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy for a Zulu prince.