Topic: Colonialism

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Franchot Tone · Richard Cromwell · Guy Standing

Synopsis Sweeping adventure set in India of a gallant trio ordered into border warfare with Afghans and guerillas.

Direction Jean Rouch

Synopsis Simple premise of this film is to follow the effects of colonialism on indigenous Africans via specific rituals developed as a reaction to the colonial system.

Direction George Stevens

Cast Cary Grant · Victor McLaglen · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Joan Fontaine

Synopsis Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants to get married and leave the service. The other two...

Direction Ashutosh Gowariker

Cast Aamir Khan · Gracy Singh · Rachel Shelley · Paul Blackthorne

Synopsis Sometime during latter half of the 19th century, a small village in North India is facing drought conditions. Captain Andrew Russell, the British captain of the nearby cantonment, demands double of the usual land tax (lagaan) from the villagers. When...

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast John Clements · Ralph Richardson · C. Aubrey Smith · June Duprez

Synopsis Action-packed story of a young British army officer who fights to preserve his honour after being branded a coward during the war in Egypt in 1898.

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Charlton Heston · Ava Gardner · David Niven · Robert Helpmann

Synopsis 55 Days at Peking (1963) is a historical epic set during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The film follows the harrowing siege of foreign legations in Peking (now Beijing) by the Boxers, a Chinese nationalist movement. As the international community,...

Direction Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Cast Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina · Leila Shenna · Yorgo Voyagis · Cheikh Nourredine

Synopsis The beginings of the Algerian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a peasant. It tells the history of Algeria since the beginning of World War II until 1954. A big budget production of the African country that is almost...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Hamdy Ahmed · Yehia Chahine · Ezzat El Alaili · Tewfik El Dekn

Direction Wei Te-sheng

Cast Lin Ching-Tai · Da-Ching · Ma Chih-Hsiang · Lin Yuanjie

Synopsis An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.

Direction Mathieu Kassovitz

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz · Sylvie Testud · Philippe Torreton · Malik Zidi

Synopsis Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages. In 1988, 30 police were kidnapped by local separatists on an island in the French colony of New Caledonia. Counter-terrorism agent Philippe Legorjus (Matthew Kassovitz) is helicoptered in...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale · Mathieu Carrière · Claude Mann

Direction Anand Tucker · David Moore

Cast Julie Walters · Nikesh Patel · Jemima West · Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2016). 2 Seasons. 20 Episodes. Drama set in 1932 following the final years of British colonial rule in India.

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · David Niven · Broderick Crawford · Reginald Owen

Synopsis In 1906 the American army pulls out of Manila leaving a handful of officers to try and get the Philippines Constabulary into shape to protect the native population from ruthless invaders. By reputation and by their exploits the fearless zealots...

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Stanley Baker · Michael Caine · Jack Hawkins · Ulla Jacobsson

Synopsis Based on an actual historic event, this is the story of a group of British soldiers stationed in Africa who are forced to defend their tiny outpost against an attack by powerful Zulu warriors. They are outnumbered 40-1 but are...

Direction Wei Te-sheng

Cast Lin Ching-Tai · Da-Ching · Ma Chih-Hsiang · Lin Yuanjie

Synopsis hecho real ocurrido en 1930, durante la dominación japonesa de la isla de Formosa (el Taiwán actual). Durante más de tres décadas, Mouna Rudo vio cómo su tribu Seediq soportaba la opresión. Forzados a adoptar la religión y el idioma...

Direction Rachid Bouchareb

Cast Jamel Debbouze · Roschdy Zem · Sami Bouajila · Samir Guesmi

Synopsis After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to...

Direction Mati Diop

Cast Dowoti Desir · Micheline Ayinon · Bicarel Gnikpo · Nadia Vihoutou Kponadou

Synopsis November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops...

Direction Basil Dearden · Eliot Elisofon

Cast Charlton Heston · Laurence Olivier · Richard Johnson · Ralph Richardson

Synopsis After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war...

Direction Rémi Bezançon · Jean-Christophe Lie

Synopsis Under a baobab tree, an old man is telling a story to the children around him about the everlasting friendship between Maki, a little boy aged 10, and Zarafa, an orphaned giraffe, a gift from the Pasha of Egypt to...

Direction Miranda Bowen · Jonny Campbell

Cast Jeremy Neumark Jones · Jessie Buckley · Ben Miles · Stephen Campbell Moore

Synopsis 6 Episodes. Aden 1963. This is the story of a British army unit fighting a Yemeni insurgency in the Middle East and the women and children who were there with them.