Movies: Colonialism

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they call him Timuti, a name that recurs across generations of his people, evoking other Timutis, alive and dead, who will nourish his spirit and shape his ...

What threads of history bind Manhattan's Ground Zero to those of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or connect sight to truth, games to war, or the silkworm to the drone? What does the United States hold to be the role of science in warfare? How has war histori...

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

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious l...

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

Educational film about Cyprus - landscape, people, work, traditions etc....

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

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

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe....

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

A re-telling of Artemio Ricarte, a Filipino patriot who fought against the Spanish and later Americans. He was later supported by the Japanese during WWII. Nickname was "El Vibora" (the Viper)....

A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by American activists Robert Van Lierop, it details the relationship of the liberation to the wider regional ...

Imposed under the British colonial rule in 1860, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalise any sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex, stigmatising them as 'against the order of nature'. On July 2, 2009 the Delhi High Court pass...

Venezuelan adaptation of The Four Featehr by A.E.W. Mason. A story of courage and redemption set in the British Empire's colonial era. When Harry Feversham resigns from his military post before a Sudan campaign, he's branded a coward and given four w...

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time, ancestry, body and death that intertwine possible paths of transcendence for this state of collective numbne...

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

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

The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour....

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