Shaka Zulu

Shaka Zulu 1986

7.10

South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.

1986

The Singapore Grip

The Singapore Grip 2020

5.70

In colonial Singapore during World War Two, this epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world events.

2020

Exterminate All the Brutes

Exterminate All the Brutes 2021

7.40

Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.

2021

Sara Dane

Sara Dane 1982

5.00

Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.

1982

A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life 1986

4.00

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.

1986

L’Incendie (El Harik)

L’Incendie (El Harik) 1974

10.00

In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome the trials they go through every day to ensure their subsistence. Her deceased father is Aïni, the mother, who bleeds herself from all four veins to keep her children and their grandmother alive. The families of Dar Sbitar share their intimacy and their daily life, this life animates the big house, which itself becomes a character in its own right. "El Harik" (The Fire), is an Algerian drama series in 10 episodes adapted from Mohamed Dib's trilogy "The Big House", "The Fire" and "The Loom".

1974

Decolonisation

Decolonisation 2020

8.80

The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.

2020

Children of the Colony

Children of the Colony 2018

6.00

A look into the Belgian colonisation of Congo through interviews of both colonials as Congolese people that lived it.

2018

The Hidden Force

The Hidden Force 1974

6.40

In the sweltering Dutch East Indies, the European colonizers are plagued by a hidden force; a combination of tropical magic, Eastern inscrutability and mutual incomprehension. Blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people, resident Van Oudyck, his son, daughter and seductive wife slowly but surely fall prey to this mysterious force...

1974

L'Algérie des chimères

L'Algérie des chimères 2001

6.00

Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837 to the end of the Second Empire.

2001