British Colonialism Movies
- 2012
Total Recall
Total Recall62012HD
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the...
- 1942
The Black Swan
The Black Swan6.41942HD
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...
- 1966
Khartoum
Khartoum6.21966HD
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...
- 1939
The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers71939HD
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
- 1947
Unconquered
Unconquered6.21947HD
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a...
- 1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade6.41936HD
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances...
- 1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
Drums Along the Mohawk6.41939HD
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing...
- 2019
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy6.22019HD
Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic...
- 2019
Coup 53
Coup 537.62019HD
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired...
- 2015
The Pearl Button
The Pearl Button6.92015HD
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...
- 2014
Concerning Violence
Concerning Violence72014HD
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in...
- 1935
Clive of India
Clive of India4.61935HD
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals...
- 2019
The American Dream: Europeans in the New World
The American Dream: Europeans in the New World42019HD
The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss...
- 1941
They Met in Bombay
They Met in Bombay7.41941HD
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
- 2024
The Lascar
The Lascar02024HD
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under...
- 2022
Thrown into Canada
Thrown into Canada02022HD
This documentary explores the history of Canada’s first major migration of non-European and non-white refugees who arrived in 1972 when Ugandan...
- 2017
India on Film: 1899 – 1947
India on Film: 1899 – 194702017HD
As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...
- 1990
A Little Piece of Sunshine
A Little Piece of Sunshine61990HD
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take...
- 2022
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art82022HD
There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...
- 2020
The Bloody Border
The Bloody Border6.32020HD
The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire;...