Topic: Colonialism

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

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

Synopsis The Battle of Algiers (1966) is a gripping historical drama set during the Algerian War of Independence. The film depicts the brutal conflict between the National Liberation Front (FLN) and French colonial forces in the 1950s. Through a realistic, documentary-style...

Direction John Huston

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

Synopsis 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 (Michael Caine), Peachy begins to recount the incredible adventures of...

Direction Jean Renoir

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

Synopsis 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), she spends most of her days writing poetry in her...

Direction Göran Olsson

Synopsis 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 Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

Direction Christopher Morahan · Jim O'Brien

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

Synopsis 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 in 1942, a time of tension as the Japanese army...

Direction Chris Marker · Alain Resnais

Synopsis 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 don't know anything about them." Their film shows what happens...

Direction Sydney Pollack

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

Synopsis Out of Africa (1985) follows the life of Karen Blixen, a Danish woman who moves to Kenya in the early 20th century to start a coffee plantation with her husband. Amidst the breathtaking landscapes, she navigates the challenges of colonial...

Direction Richard Attenborough

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

Synopsis Gandhi (1982) is a biographical epic that chronicles the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the leader of India's non-violent independence movement against British rule. The film traces Gandhi's journey from his early days as a lawyer in South Africa, where...

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

Synopsis 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 to be completely uninterested in government. He tries to arrange...

Direction Ignacio Mercero · Iñaki Peñafiel · Norberto López Amado

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

Synopsis 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 of a single mother who works as a seamstress in...

Direction Ousmane Sembene

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

Synopsis 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. Mistreated by her employers, Diouanne’s hopes turn to disillusionment and...

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 an old lady, Mrs. Moore, at a mosque, who asks...

Direction Steven Knight · Kristoffer Nyholm · Anders Engström

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

Synopsis In Taboo (TV Series) (2017), James Keziah Delaney, long presumed dead, returns to 1814 London after years in Africa to inherit his father's shipping empire. His mysterious past and newfound wealth attract dangerous enemies, including the East India Company and...

Direction René Vautier

Synopsis 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 in the French colonies of West Africa. Once there, the...

Direction Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

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

Synopsis 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 pretends to think - they are not quite human and...

Direction Michael Curtiz

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

Synopsis 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 British women and children. This leaves an inextinguishable memory and...

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

Synopsis 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 Soviets against the occupying army. However he is captured when...