Colonialism Movies

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

An in depth look at the toxic legacy of British colonial-era laws, which criminalise consensual same-sex love, while at the same time allowing...

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania. On the outskirts of Serengeti National...

A man steals a huge diamond and sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy for a Zulu prince.

The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through...

Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay...

Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army uses a talented ensign to register the...

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

A meditative depiction of a colonial villa in Mungo, Surinam, taken back by nature.

CBS News presents a Smithsonian adventure featuring Iris Love and narrated by Walter Schirra produced by CBS News in association with the Smithsonian...

The Stone That Remembers interprets the Durga Mahisas-uramardini statue’s journey from its home, the Singhasari Temple, to the hands of...

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

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Stories of Waitara combines oral histories, state of the art animations and powerful dramatic re-enactments to bring to life the narratives of Te...

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...