Colonialism Movies

In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from...

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

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

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one notorious bone theft by a member of the 1948...

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

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

Directed by Abdelaziz Tolbi.

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

Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.

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

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...

In a British barrack in India is confined a tamed gorilla which has conceived a hatred for one of the Hindoo attendants, owing to the barbarous...

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

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

In a strange twist of irony, Americans celebrate their independence on the sovereign lands of the Quileute People. An ambient soundscape coupled with...

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an...

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