Movies: Colonialism

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar....

Accompany a couple on their visit to a local wildlife park....

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A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and dead elements. The Sea is History, made in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, is a free adaptation of th...

The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River, in a rehearsal of the voyage undertaken by their...

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

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India....

A wealthy painter's attempts to romance Lord Nelson's Daughter is complicated when she falls for his Hindu servant instead....

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 of scientific discourse to produce revisions of the world, the evolution of the concept of the archive...

A sequence of archive images filmed by Schefer's grandfather, a former colonial administrator, is the starting point for an experimental documentary on the history and memory of Portuguese decolonisation. Double or split memory: the lived and descrip...

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community...

'An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate adult audiences in the Gold Coast. (..) This is a film with an almost entirely African cast, depicting an African...

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

«My grandma had a great strength and love for life which made me believe that some of us were able to become immortals and escape death. When she passed at the age of 92, her death was a surprise to me, which I was not prepared for. The cinema has t...

The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias....

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

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

When a northeastern brazilian worker, Filismino, is forced to move to the big southeastern metropolis of São Paulo, the northeastern grim reaper is forced to go there and kill him....

Documentary footage of a parade in Antwerp celebrating the annexation of Congo to Belgium....