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Daniel Ali, a rebellious schoolteacher in colonial Algeria

2012 ★ 10.0

In 1954, Daniel Vérin, a young schoolteacher of Algerian descent, made a radical decision: he turned his back on colonial France and joined the Algerian insurge

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Alborada

2005 ★ 7.5

Alborada is a telenovela made by the Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Indepe

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Palestine 36

2025 ★ 7.8

Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing fo

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Africa Blood and Guts

1966 ★ 6.2

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

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Terra X History

2000 ★ 6.8

The spectrum of topics ranges from political history with a focus on contemporary history (especially National Socialism and post-war history) to cultural histo

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Mārama

2026 ★ 6.3

1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and des

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Gyeongseong Creature

2023 ★ 7.9

Gyeongseong, 1945. In Seoul's grim era under colonial rule, an entrepreneur and a sleuth fight for survival and face a monster born out of human greed. The tele

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The Last of the Mohicans

1992 ★ 7.4

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 Col

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Aliens

1986 ★ 8.0

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years.

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Deseo

2013 ★ 6.5

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopoli

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Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)

2016 ★ 10.0

From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive pre

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The Long Duel

1967 ★ 5.2

An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colon

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Baddegama

1980 ★ 6.0

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people

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Your Face Will be the Last

2024 ★ 6.8

A child prodigy, a talented pianist, who fears the gift he was born with. A father persecuted and tormented by the infernal memory of the colonial war and a lum

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Claire Denis

Claire Denis is a French film director and screenwriter born on April 21, 1946, in Paris, France. She has directed numerous films, including Beau Travail, Troub

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Now and Then

2026 ★ 0.0

A college student, along with her peers in Japan, rally to change the country’s hostile immigration laws that have incarcerated asylum-seekers in deadly detenti

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Vertical Remains

2026 ★ 0.0

Time ascends as history sinks. Thirty-two upward-tilting shots, across British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, excavate histories of Indigenous presence, colonial vi

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A People on the March

1963 ★ 6.5

Collectively directed by the members of the Centre audiovisuel d'Alger at Ben Aknoun, the film traces, in two parts, Algeria's recent history, from colonial rep

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The Youth

1955 ★ 6.7

In the latter years of the Korean Empire, Lee In Hwa, disguises herself as a man so she can join a group of young men determined to overthrow the colonial gover

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Islam

1949 ★ 10.0

"Islam" by Georges Régnier (1949) is a documentary about Islamic art in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Spain. The documentary received a special mention at the

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Waiting for the Barbarians

2020 ★ 5.9

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an im

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Slavers

1978 ★ 4.0

A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love. Adventure Drama History

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Our Land

2026 ★ 7.8

In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and ar

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Lafayette

1962 ★ 5.9

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence. Drama War History

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