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19 results for “colonial war”

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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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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Guns at Batasi

1964 ★ 7.0

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care. Topic: Film "

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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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River Queen

2005 ★ 5.7

In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman desperately trying to find her son finds herself caught on both sides of the lines during the wars between Māori tribe

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Elephant Walk

1954 ★ 5.9

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and t

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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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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

2019 ★ 6.4

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in

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The Battle of Algiers

1966 ★ 7.9

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings

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March or Die

1977 ★ 5.8

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located i

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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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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959 ★ 8.1

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which a

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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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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 Battleship Island

2017 ★ 7.2

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape. Drama

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Wake (Subic)

2015 ★ 6.0

First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the first part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) was released in 2

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A History of Love and War

2025 ★ 5.0

This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer faces trial for Mexico's violent history. The fourth feature f

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Something of Value

1957 ★ 5.5

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, fi

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