Colonization Movies

  • 1966
    Africa Addio

    Africa Addio

    Africa Addio

    6.31966HD

    A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching, violence, executions, and tribal slaughter.

    Africa Addio
  • 2018
    The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

    7.0772018HD

    In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of...

    The Nightingale
  • 2019
    Waiting for the Barbarians

    Waiting for the Barbarians

    Waiting for the Barbarians

    5.9222019HD

    At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals...

    Waiting for the Barbarians
  • 2013
    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

    7.32013HD

    “Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the...

    Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
  • 2013
    Propaganda

    Propaganda

    Propaganda

    8.12013HD

    An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean...

    Propaganda
  • 2015
    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    6.92015HD

    The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives...

    The Pearl Button
  • 2022
    The Wind & the Reckoning

    The Wind & the Reckoning

    The Wind & the Reckoning

    102022HD

    As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai'i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking...

    The Wind & the Reckoning
  • 2014
    Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence

    72014HD

    Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in...

    Concerning Violence
  • 2022
    For Love

    For Love

    For Love

    7.52022HD

    In this searing documentary, Indigenous people share heartbreaking stories that reveal the injustices inflicted by the Canadian child welfare system.

    For Love
  • 2022
    Here Ends the World We've Known

    Here Ends the World We've Known

    Here Ends the World We've Known

    6.82022HD

    1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he...

    Here Ends the World We've Known
  • 1979
    Manaos

    Manaos

    Manaos

    5.31979HD

    At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants...

    Manaos
  • 1992
    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    Surviving Columbus

    01992HD

    This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

    Surviving Columbus
  • 1981
    Umrao Jaan

    Umrao Jaan

    Umrao Jaan

    6.11981HD

    Amiran is sold to a brothel by a corrupt cop after her father testifies against him. Many years later, she grows up to be an accomplished poetess and...

    Umrao Jaan
  • 2019
    The Last American Colony

    The Last American Colony

    The Last American Colony

    02019HD

    Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territory of the USA since 1917. Los Macheteros and one...

    The Last American Colony
  • 2024
    Praia da Saudade

    Praia da Saudade

    Praia da Saudade

    102024HD

    A documentary about climate change in Brazil, especially at Atafona Beach (in the Campos de Goytacazes region), which is being swallowed up by the...

    Praia da Saudade
  • 2015
    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance

    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance

    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance

    82015HD

    The conflict over forestry operations on Lyell Island in 1985 was a major milestone in the history of the re-emergence of the Haida Nation. It was a...

    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance
  • 2023
    Little Sahara

    Little Sahara

    Little Sahara

    02023HD

    Those who do not know the Sahara think there is only sand in the desert. But in the desert there are children who play and draw and make movies, and...

    Little Sahara
  • 2018
    Totems and Taboos

    Totems and Taboos

    Totems and Taboos

    72018HD

    In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity,...

    Totems and Taboos
  • 2011
    Mister Bob

    Mister Bob

    Mister Bob

    4.72011HD

    1965, Bob Denard, even early in his career, Battle in Congo. It strives to make its game in the middle of a bloody civil war fueled by rivalry and...

    Mister Bob
  • 1978
    Lautaro

    Lautaro

    Lautaro

    01978HD

    The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade...

    Lautaro