Colonialism Movies

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

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

A polemic against Werner Herzog and the making of "Fitzcarraldo", exploring the question of the filmmaker's ethical and moral responsibility.

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

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

Return to al-Ma’in chronicles the multiyear collaboration between Forensic Architecture (FA) and Palestinian historian and Nakba survivor...

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour

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

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

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

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...

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white...

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

Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who...