Africa Addio

Africa Addio 1966

6.30

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

1966

The Alcove

The Alcove 1985

5.30

In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal, the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his neglected wife Alessandra has formed a relationship with Elio’s otherwise frigid secretary Velma who is less than pleased at Elio’s return.

1985

The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness 1996

6.80

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

1996

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans 1992

7.38

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.

1992

Palm Trees in the Snow

Palm Trees in the Snow 2015

7.39

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

2015

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006

7.37

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

2006

Once Upon a Time in China III

Once Upon a Time in China III 1993

6.42

Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.

1993

The New World

The New World 2005

6.50

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

2005

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers 2002

6.62

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.

2002

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn 1979

6.00

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

1979

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India 2001

7.30

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.

2001

The Wind and the Lion

The Wind and the Lion 1975

6.50

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

1975

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002

7.00

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

2002

Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent 2015

7.70

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.

2015

Burn!

Burn! 1969

6.70

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

1969

Bacurau

Bacurau 2019

7.68

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

2019

White Material

White Material 2010

6.80

On the brink of civil war breaking out in an African country, a French woman struggles to save her floundering coffee plantation.

2010

Another Day of Life

Another Day of Life 2018

7.44

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…

2018

Chocolat

Chocolat 1988

6.70

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.

1988

Story of a Prostitute

Story of a Prostitute 1965

6.60

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

1965

Shaka Zulu

Shaka Zulu 1986

7.10

South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.

1986

The Singapore Grip

The Singapore Grip 2020

5.70

In colonial Singapore during World War Two, this epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world events.

2020

Exterminate All the Brutes

Exterminate All the Brutes 2021

7.30

Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.

2021

Sara Dane

Sara Dane 1982

5.00

Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.

1982

A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life 1986

4.00

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.

1986

L’Incendie (El Harik)

L’Incendie (El Harik) 1974

10.00

In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome the trials they go through every day to ensure their subsistence. Her deceased father is Aïni, the mother, who bleeds herself from all four veins to keep her children and their grandmother alive. The families of Dar Sbitar share their intimacy and their daily life, this life animates the big house, which itself becomes a character in its own right. "El Harik" (The Fire), is an Algerian drama series in 10 episodes adapted from Mohamed Dib's trilogy "The Big House", "The Fire" and "The Loom".

1974

Decolonisation

Decolonisation 2020

8.80

The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.

2020

The Hidden Force

The Hidden Force 1974

6.40

In the sweltering Dutch East Indies, the European colonizers are plagued by a hidden force; a combination of tropical magic, Eastern inscrutability and mutual incomprehension. Blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people, resident Van Oudyck, his son, daughter and seductive wife slowly but surely fall prey to this mysterious force...

1974

Children of the Colony

Children of the Colony 2018

6.00

A look into the Belgian colonisation of Congo through interviews of both colonials as Congolese people that lived it.

2018

L'Algérie des chimères

L'Algérie des chimères 2001

6.00

Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837 to the end of the Second Empire.

2001