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8.1
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77
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73
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84
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cc age 11+

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
The year is 1893 and India is under British occupation. In a small village, the tyrannical Captain Russell has imposed an unprecedented land tax on its citizens. Outraged, Bhuvan, a rebellious farmer, rallies the villagers to publicly oppose the tax. Russell offers a novel way to settle the dispute: he challenges Bhuvan and his men to a game of cricket, a sport completely foreign to India. If Bhuvan and his men can defeat Russell's team, the tax will be repealed.
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Kanopy
82
7.3
/33700/
77
/2133/
76
/1104/
3.9
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93
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84
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82
/27/

Bacurau (2019)
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.
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Kanopy
82
7.5
/58229/
74
/1209/
73
/864/
4.0
/71039/
90
/116/
87
/2769/
82
/30/
cc age 16+

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
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.
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Kanopy
81
7.8
/25665/
77
/786/
76
/489/
4.2
/38609/
97
/147/
85
/177/
82
/31/

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
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.
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Kanopy
78
7.4
/31465/
72
/661/
70
/378/
3.5
/18618/
87
/143/
86
/1233/
80
/31/
cc age 10+

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
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.
poster
78
7.6
/203765/
76
/5476/
74
/3310/
3.7
/169082/
88
/126/
88
/7338/
76
/18/
cc age 17+

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
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.
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Criterion Channel
76
7.3
/5001/
69
/87/
69
/105/
3.9
/17416/
71
/14/
67
/74/
81
/18/

Chocolat (1988)
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.
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Kanopy
76
7.6
/3052/
77
/98/
69
/73/
3.9
/6138/
93
/46/
80
/10/
80
/18/

The Pearl Button (2015)
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
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75
6.9
/6531/
65
/303/
67
/142/
3.6
/36558/
94
/62/
68
/16/
80
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The Settlers (2023)
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
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74
6.9
/8925/
66
/204/
68
/165/
3.8
/17635/
86
/95/
64
/183/
81
/26/

White Material (2010)
In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.
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Kanopy
72
7.5
/898/
74
/31/
70
/19/
4.1
/3653/
90
/30/
72
/6/
80
/12/

Concerning Violence (2014)
Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.5
/16117/
63
/459/
64
/290/
3.7
/35521/
86
/136/
53
/500/
85
/36/
cc age 13+

Meek's Cutoff (2011)
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
6.7
/1937/
63
/31/
63
/43/
3.3
/978/
100
/6/
69
/23/

Black and White in Color (1976)
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
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70
6.7
/93225/
65
/1659/
65
/1231/
3.8
/65526/
63
/190/
58
/5045/
73
/38/
cc age 13+

The New World (2005)
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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75
65
7.3
/13057/
74
/677/
73
/537/
3.4
/6698/
83
/6/
79
/8/
cc age 18+

Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
64
6.7
/8142/
71
/305/
64
/213/
3.4
/4827/
63
/8/
69
/160/

Once Upon a Time in China III (1993)
Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.
poster
67
62
6.8
/10946/
69
/200/
65
/200/
3.4
/4209/
63
/16/
69
/182/
67
/9/

The Wind and the Lion (1975)
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.
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Kanopy
78
61
7.3
/2937/
73
/207/
74
/110/
3.7
/3895/
89
/19/
89
/5/
78
/4/
cc age 15+

Another Day of Life (2018)
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…
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Fandor
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61
6.8
/3134/
70
/74/
65
/116/
3.5
/2887/
100
/5/
62
/39/

Black Venus (2010)
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
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Criterion Channel
80
59
7.0
/993/
64
/30/
70
/28/
3.9
/5754/
100
/6/
100

Sambizanga (1973)
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.
poster
Kanopy
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58
6.7
/1575/
61
/32/
69
/40/
3.7
/2801/
84
/58/
70
/78/
81
/18/

Bamako (2006)
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
poster
Kanopy
58
6.5
/36452/
68
/746/
66
/576/
3.2
/8796/
41
/147/
65
/1090/
49
/32/
cc age 13+

The Four Feathers (2002)
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.
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57
6.7
/299/
56
/8/
57
/9/
71
/11/

Broken Rainbow (1985)
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
poster
The Roku Channel
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57
6.7
/8202/
68
/252/
61
/109/
3.3
/2604/
50
/8/
61
/144/

Zulu Dawn (1979)
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Hoopla
56
6.8
/69774/
69
/1626/
68
/1103/
3.3
/28012/
51
/51/
75
/1674/
46
/26/
cc age 16+

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
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.
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MGM Plus
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55
7.1
/6319/
72
/91/
68
/126/
3.7
/5269/
50
/12/
45
/28/
72
/4/

Burn! (1969)
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.
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Criterion Channel
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51
7.3
/1745/
66
/24/
65
/36/
3.8
/2594/
81
/382/

Story of a Prostitute (1965)
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.
poster
73
50
7.9
/4251/
68
/18/
80
/21/
3.8
/5086/
64
/5/

Palestine 36 (2025)
In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.
poster
67
50
7.0
/2161/
63
/45/
62
/47/
3.5
/2957/
67
/1036/

Africa Blood and Guts (1966)
A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.
poster
Kanopy
78
47
7.1
/1384/
70
/59/
67
/39/
3.7
/4169/
100
/8/
90
/2/
cc age 13+

This Magnificent Cake! (2018)
In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a successful but lonely businessman, an enslaved porter, a young army deserter, a ghostly clarinetist. Some benefit from colonialism and greed. Others suffer racism and violence.
poster
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45
7.5
/1485/
69
/28/
68
/47/
3.8
/5544/

Statues Also Die (1953)
Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and museum contexts. Beginning with the question of why African works are confined to ethnographic displays while Greek or Egyptian art is celebrated, the film became a landmark of anti-colonial cinema and was banned in France for eight years.
poster
64
34
8.5
/28/
10
/2/
3.4
/338/
97
/169/
62
/73/

Hacking at Leaves (2024)
Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small tinker space in Durango, Colorado, that made significant contributions to worldwide COVID relief efforts. But things go awry when Uncle Sam interferes with the film's production.
poster
65
33
6.8
/753/
66
/43/
65
/31/
3.2
/1610/

Measures of Men (2023)
Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.
poster
76
31
7.5
/741/
74
/12/
78
/22/
3.8
/1439/
81
/12/

The Last Supper (1976)
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
poster
66
30
6.2
/1255/
64
/47/
64
/41/
3.6
/1222/
69
/4/

Diên Biên Phu (1992)
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
29
6.5
/1329/
67
/25/
63
/21/
3.3
/426/
80
/5/
39
/7/

The Real Glory (1939)
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
poster
61
20
6.3
/594/
66
/11/
70
/14/
48
/28/

Follow The River (1995)
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
poster
53
20
4.7
/721/
49
/58/
52
/34/
3.1
/387/

The Alcove (1985)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
11
7.1
/237/
53
/8/
62
/6/
3.7
/629/

Sarraounia (1986)
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
poster
50
11
5.6
/580/
68
/10/
53
/10/
25
/27/

Bengal Brigade (1954)
Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, the daughter of his superior officer, Claybourne leaves the army until he could regain his reputation. When the Rajah Karam launches an attack on the British forces in India, Claybourne finds a chance at redemption.
poster
51
7
7.2
/55/
56
/3/
10
/1/
3.4
/641/

Sugar Island (2025)
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
37
6
4.3
/511/
50
/21/
44
/11/
14
/2/

The Flood (2020)
When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms into redemption and reconciliation.
poster
?
80
/1/

Ils étaient tirailleurs, voix oubliées de la Grande Guerre (2025)
N/A
poster
?
82
/36/

Sharp Objects (2025)
‘Sharp Objects’ follows the forgotten story of the Klungkung keris back to its origins and to its post-colonial relevance to Bali today, tracing the looting of the keris to modern day tourism in Bali. The film juxtaposes the 'knowledge' of colonial archives against community-based knowledge and mythology, convoluting the understanding of what is preserved, what is dead and what is lost. The artists apply a tangible intervention on the photochemical material they use for the film. This time consuming approach embodies the narrative of the labor intensive iron forging craftmanship of a keris blacksmith.
poster
?
80
/1/

Ships, seas, power - beginning of globalization (2025)
People have always wanted to reach the horizon and go beyond it. It wasn't and isn't just about discovering for the sake of discovering. Exotic goods, wealth and power were the driving forces of these people. The steamship ultimately brought the breakthrough for global mobility and trade. In the past, as now, shipping is the engine of globalization.
poster
?
30
/1/

Search for the Goddess of Love (1971)
CBS News presents a Smithsonian adventure featuring Iris Love and narrated by Walter Schirra produced by CBS News in association with the Smithsonian Institution (1971).
poster
?
70
/1/

Ka Ho‘ina: Going Home (2014)
Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140 sets of iwi kupuna and provides an intimate look into the legacy forged by these committed and passionate few, ensuring that Hawaiians will mālama or care for kupuna for generations to come.
poster
?
70
/2/
70
/1/

Under the Cloud (2023)
An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste disposal on indigenous lands in the US. It raises the voices of those who witnessed and experienced the consequences of nuclear colonialism and those who still resist.


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