Movies and TvShows featuring "colonial-history" theme.

In the midst of political struggle and oppression in Southeast Asia, an American ambassador must navigate the challenges of post-colonialism, colonial history, and American foreign policy. As he fights for freedom and self-determination, he encounters riots, poverty, and civil war. Based on a novel, this movie explores themes of patriotism, imperialism, and the struggle for independence.

Badge 373 is a thrilling crime drama set in 1970s New York City. The story follows a tough and uncompromising police officer who goes on a mission of revenge after the murder of his partner. As he delves deeper into the investigation, he uncovers a web of corruption, racism, and violence that plagues the city. Fueled by his grief and a desire for justice, he becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the culprits and bringing them to justice.

During the cold winter of 1692, a group of girls in Salem Village began exhibiting strange, disturbing behavior. Over the ensuing weeks, they accused three local women of witchcraft, setting in motion a massive witch hunt that still haunts Salem, Massachusetts, to this very day. Dark, atmospheric re-enactments and expert interviews explore the hysteria and panic that overtook the devout Puritan community and led to the imprisonment of over 200 innocent people and the execution of 20.

In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.

Set in Surabaya during the 1940s, this dramatic movie tells the story of a young boy and girl who navigate love, friendship, and freedom amidst the chaos and violence of the era. Their journey unfolds against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation and the struggle for independence, exploring themes of tradition, culture, and justice.

Jamaican-born Stuart Hall looks at the history of the Caribbean islands through interviews with modern inhabitants.

The Patriot Game is a documentary film that focuses on the conflict between Irish Republicans and the British Army during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It explores the roots of the conflict, including the history of British colonialism, sectarianism, and discrimination. The film also examines the role of paramilitary groups like the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the tactics they employed in their struggle for Irish independence.

In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.

If you would like to witness the forces of colonialism in brute action, Rithy Panh’s extraordinary new film provides the long view. A masterpiece of editing, the film assembles archival footage and antiqued title cards into a wordless recapturing of the Indochinese Empire, beginning with the early days of French occupation. In this prelapsarian age, everything is golden with promise. Ladies, in empire waist gowns and enormous hats, throw candies to local children. Great steamships carry French culture abroad, and the Tricolore flag flies on high.

Negotiating Amnesia is an essay film based on research conducted at the Alinari Archive and the National Library in Florence. It focuses on the Ethiopian War of 1935-36 and the legacy of the fascist, imperial drive in Italy. Through interviews, archival images and the analysis of high-school textbooks employed in Italy since 1946, the film shifts through different historical and personal anecdotes, modes and technologies of representation.

After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is looking for listeners and encouragement. He doesn't find either. Instead, the repeated monological memory of his own heroic deeds determines his present – with all the consequences. This 30-minute short film is based on the statements made by the mercenary Siegfried Müller in the documentary “The Laughing Man” (Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann, DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries, 1966), as well as records from the German colonial period in Africa. An intensive contribution to the necessary public debate about the consequences of military operations.

Daniel Cordus, grandson of African warrior Cordus - who was recruited for the colonial army in the Dutch East Indies - was captured as a POW when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the colony in March 1942. Together with his two older brothers, he was put to work along the Death Railway between Burma and Thailand. While Daniel's brother Jan did not survive captivity, his other brother Jozef was killed during the civil war that raged in the colony right after the war. As Dutch citizens, the descendants of African warriors were forced to leave the new republic of Indonesia in 1950. Through the years in The Netherlands, Daniel Cordus has fought for recognition of all Indo-Africans who have died for the Dutch flag. Seventy years after his captivity, he finally returns to Burma to visit the grave of his brother Jan.