Movies: Decolonization

  • 1974
    Hearts and Minds

    Hearts and Minds (1974)

    Hearts and Minds

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    Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic contex...

    Hearts and Minds
  • 1970
    Opium and the Stick

    Opium and the Stick (1970)

    Opium and the Stick

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    In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged ...

    Opium and the Stick
  • 2022
    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire (2022)

    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

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    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
  • 2014
    Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence (2014)

    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 the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon....

    Concerning Violence
  • 1984
    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização (1984)

    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

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    The film deals with the judgment of the so-called "compromised", who integrated the colonial apparatus. At Josina Machel school, in an amphitheater with a full audience and balcony, there is a stage where Samora Machel and the members of the Frelimo ...

    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização
  • 2017
    De Gaulle, the Last King of France

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France

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    Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality t...

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France
  • 2023
    PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial

    PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial (2023)

    PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial

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    PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial is a documentary that presents and discusses the psychological impact that colonialism has had on the Puerto Rican people. The director analyzes the traumas generated in Puerto Rican society by that colonial experience....

    PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial
  • 2024
    América, do Sul

    América, do Sul (2024)

    América, do Sul

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    América, do Sul
  • 2016
    Who Will Burry The Dead?

    Who Will Burry The Dead? (2016)

    Who Will Burry The Dead?

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    This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lakota. Its exploration into Native American history also takes a hard and detailed look at President ...

    Who Will Burry The Dead?
  • 1973
    The Charcoal Maker

    The Charcoal Maker (1973)

    The Charcoal Maker

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    Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he is forced to return to his village....

    The Charcoal Maker
  • 2021
    The Rumba Kings

    The Rumba Kings (2021)

    The Rumba Kings

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    In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African tunes with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying Congolese rumba, a style that conquered the en...

    The Rumba Kings
  • 2022
    Listen to Britain

    Listen to Britain (2022)

    Listen to Britain

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    This spiritual successor to the 1942 original explores the vibrant yet tumultuous growth of Britishness over the past century. The film gives voices to a new reality of Britain, one that has been formed through the flourishing multiculturalism the co...

    Listen to Britain
  • 2018
    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte (2018)

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte

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    Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the film and interviews with personalities, the filmmaker retraces the journey of a major work - from the ...

    La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
  • 1968
    México, México: Mexique en mouvement

    México, México: Mexique en mouvement (1968)

    México, México: Mexique en mouvement

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    "Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its sacred lands, its forgotten legends, its religious rituals and this frightening misery. François Reichenbach...

    México, México: Mexique en mouvement
  • 2021
    Queering Yoga

    Queering Yoga (2021)

    Queering Yoga

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    A documentary about stories of personal transformation and healing through yoga in the Queer, Trans, QTPOC communities from the lens of decolonizing yoga....

    Queering Yoga
  • 2019
    Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder

    Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder (2019)

    Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder

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    Un-Documented argues against Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s film Statues Also Die (1963). Focusing on plundered objects in European museums and listening to the call of asylum seekers to enter European countries, their former colonizing powers, the...

    Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder
  • 2015
    Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley

    Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley (2015)

    Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley

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    In 2009, the first coup d'etat in a generation in Central America overthrows the elected president of Honduras. A nation-wide movement, known simply as The Resistance, rises in opposition. Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley centers on the mo...

    Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley
  • 2023
    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred (2023)

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred

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    In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massi...

    Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred
  • 2017
    In the Beginning was Water and Sky

    In the Beginning was Water and Sky (2017)

    In the Beginning was Water and Sky

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    A haunting and visually stunning fairytale that blends the horrors of fantasy and the real life historical events of colonization and Indian Boarding Schools in the United States. A Native American girl in the 1700s and a Native American boy in the 1...

    In the Beginning was Water and Sky
  • 1969
    waawiyebii'ige: She Draws a Circle

    waawiyebii'ige: She Draws a Circle (1969)

    waawiyebii'ige: She Draws a Circle

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    She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our spiritual connections to the land and one another help us to hold space for regenerative healing, br...

    waawiyebii'ige: She Draws a Circle