Colonialism Movies

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

17-year-old Giddy spends a week in England seeking reconnection with her queer and estranged sister, Julie. On the night of Julie’s 24th...

In the 17th century, advances in the natural sciences and the invention of the telescope led Dutch women painters to closely study nature and include...

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

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

A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and...

In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en...

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is...

While trying by all means to stay out of the bloody turmoil caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive family man, is wrongfully...

A short experimental film about a fire hydrant, a busy sidewalk nestled between an electrical post and a building.

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.

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...

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

People have always wanted to reach the horizon and go beyond it. It wasn't and isn't just about discovering for the sake of discovering. Exotic...

The film recounts in three parts by three different directors the Algerian people's struggle for independence after 130 years of French colonization:...

A powerful documentary that follows gay Namibian activist Friedel Dausab as he challenges his country’s criminalisation of same-sex love. In...

Prejudices, ignorance, and racism still leave their mark on the everyday life of black Germans, respectively Europeans, until today. How do...

The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.

In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.