Browse Colonialism Movies

Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of the image...

In this animated short, a self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a flag on the Arctic ice, as a bemused Inuit hunter...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African t...

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...

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

The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun

In 1832 the government of Van Diemen’s Land sent the last Aboriginal resistance fighters into exile at Wybalenna on Flinders Island, bringing an end t...

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

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 family...

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

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

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

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

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

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

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