Colonisation Movies

In the early days of Oklahoma, Joe Turner, his wife and two children settled on a little farm in the southern part of the state. The hardships were...

Passages from the Bible are read out while sculpted objects and monumental art works glide slowly past the camera. Most of them represent female...

Documentation of the encroachment of European settlers upon Native American lands and the violent reaction of the Indians in their struggle to...

Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while...

A childhood episode comes back to the memory of a man with no land

One Hero, The People (Un Seul Héros, le Peuple) tells the story of a victorious popular uprising. In 1960, facing militarized repression,...

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also...

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the eviction of protestors from Bastion Point...

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

In Morocco, children grow up fearing the witch Aïcha Kandicha. Yet some say she may have lived during the Portuguese rule over Morocco. This...

In Old Moshi, Tanzania, a head is missing : the skull of Chief Meli, who fought the German colonial occupation of his territory and was executed in...

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...

Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, is currently at the center of international covetousness and tensions. In his rivalry with China...

Incorporating poker, challenges to the law, a struggle for the control of a new territory where the stakes are high, New Kahnawake experiments with...

Unknown history of one of the oldest countries, and the partitioning of it, with no regards for the people who lived on their land for many...

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