Topic: Colonialism

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Jean Martin · Yacef Saadi · Brahim Haggiag · Fusia El Kader

Plot A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The...

Direction John Huston

Cast Sean Connery · Michael Caine · Christopher Plummer · Saeed Jaffrey

Plot The film begins with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his office, his privacy is broken by the arrival of a dishevelled old acquaintance and fellow Freemason, Peachy Carnahan...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Patricia Walters · Adrienne Corri · Nora Swinburne · Esmond Knight

Plot Harriet (Patricia Walters) is a pensive, awkward, and fanciful adolescent growing up in Bengal near the banks of the river. The eldest child of a jute factory manager (Esmond Knight),...

Direction Göran Olsson

Plot Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The...

Direction Christopher Morahan · Jim O'Brien

Cast Peggy Ashcroft · Tim Pigott-Smith · Art Malik · Charles Dance

Plot A fifteen-hour adaptation of four novels by Paul Scott, collectively known as the "Raj Quartet," which describe the final years of Great Britain's colonial rule in India. The action begins...

Direction Chris Marker · Alain Resnais

Plot Statues Also Die traces the devastating impact of French colonialism on African art. As Resnais' co-director, Chris Marker, stated, "We want to see their suffering, serenity, humor, even though we...

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Meryl Streep · Robert Redford · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Michael Kitchen

Plot Based on the book "Out of Africa" by Danish writer Isak Dinesen (her real name was Karen Blixen). Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, marries a friend for the title of...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Ben Kingsley · Roshan Seth · Martin Sheen · Ian Charleson

Plot Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed...

Direction Raúl de la Fuente · Damian Nenow

Cast Miroslaw Haniszewski · Vergil J. Smith · Tomasz Zietek · Olga Boladz

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Sanjeev Kumar · Saeed Jaffrey · Amjad Khan · Richard Attenborough

Plot Set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company (Richard Attenborough) has observed that the monarch of Lucknow, which is in his trading region, seems...

Direction Ignacio Mercero · Iñaki Peñafiel · Norberto López Amado

Cast Adriana Ugarte · Hannah New · Peter Vives · Tristán Ulloa

Plot Set in Madrid and in the spanish -at that time- city of Tanger, in Morocco from 1935 into 1941, the story centers on young dressmaker Sira Quiroga (Adriana Ugarte), daughter...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

Cast Mbissine Thérèse Diop · Anne-Marie Jelinek · Robert Fontaine · Momar Nar Sene

Plot Black Girl tells the story of Diouanne, a young Senegalese woman eager to find a better life and who takes a job as a governess for a bourgeois French family....

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Marlon Brando · Evaristo Márquez · Renato Salvatori · Norman Hill

Plot The man who sells war. The bloodier the battle - the higher the price. He's going to make a fortune on this one.

Direction David Lean

Cast Judy Davis · Victor Banerjee · Peggy Ashcroft · James Fox

Plot Circa 1920, during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. He is proficient in English, and wears Western style clothing. He meets...

Direction Steven Knight · Kristoffer Nyholm · Anders Engström

Cast Tom Hardy · Oona Chaplin · Leo Bill · David Hayman

Plot TV Series (2017-Present Day). James Keziah Delaney returns to 1814 London after 10 years in Africa to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father. Driven...

Direction René Vautier

Plot Afrique 50 is the first French anti-colonialist film. It started out as an assignment requested by the French League of Schooling to show their students the educational mission carried out...

Direction Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

Cast Jean-Pierre Marielle · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jean Carmet · Jean-Michel Dupuis

Plot Two men are facing one another. One, a monk, thinks that South-American Indians are human beings, and wants their slaughtering to end. The other, an official philosopher, thinks - or...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Patric Knowles · Nigel Bruce

Plot Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre...

Direction Wei Te-sheng

Cast Lin Ching-Tai · Da-Ching · Umin Boya · Lin Yuanjie

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Valery Inkijinoff · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Viktor Tsoppi · Karl Gurnyak

Plot In 1918 a simple Mongol herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him. In 1920 he helps the partisans fight for the...