British Colonialism Movies

  • 2012
    Total Recall

    Total Recall

    Total Recall

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    Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the...

    Total Recall
  • 1942
    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

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    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...

    The Black Swan
  • 1966
    Khartoum

    Khartoum

    Khartoum

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    English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...

    Khartoum
  • 1939
    The Four Feathers

    The Four Feathers

    The Four Feathers

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    A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

    The Four Feathers
  • 1947
    Unconquered

    Unconquered

    Unconquered

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    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...

    Unconquered
  • 1936
    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

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    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...

    The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • 1939
    Drums Along the Mohawk

    Drums Along the Mohawk

    Drums Along the Mohawk

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    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...

    Drums Along the Mohawk
  • 2019
    Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy

    Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy

    Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy

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    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...

    Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
  • 2019
    Coup 53

    Coup 53

    Coup 53

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    Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired...

    Coup 53
  • 2015
    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    6.92015HD

    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...

    The Pearl Button
  • 2014
    Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence

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    Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in...

    Concerning Violence
  • 1935
    Clive of India

    Clive of India

    Clive of India

    4.61935HD

    Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals...

    Clive of India
  • 2019
    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

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    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...

    The American Dream: Europeans in the New World
  • 1941
    They Met in Bombay

    They Met in Bombay

    They Met in Bombay

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    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.

    They Met in Bombay
  • 2024
    The Lascar

    The Lascar

    The Lascar

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    At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under...

    The Lascar
  • 2022
    Thrown into Canada

    Thrown into Canada

    Thrown into Canada

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    This documentary explores the history of Canada’s first major migration of non-European and non-white refugees who arrived in 1972 when Ugandan...

    Thrown into Canada
  • 2017
    India on Film: 1899 – 1947

    India on Film: 1899 – 1947

    India on Film: 1899 – 1947

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    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...

    India on Film: 1899 – 1947
  • 1990
    A Little Piece of Sunshine

    A Little Piece of Sunshine

    A Little Piece of Sunshine

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    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...

    A Little Piece of Sunshine
  • 2022
    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

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    There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
  • 2020
    The Bloody Border

    The Bloody Border

    The Bloody Border

    6.32020HD

    The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire;...

    The Bloody Border