decolonization movies

Hearts and Minds (1974)
7.8 / 10

Documentary, War

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...

Concerning Violence (2014)
6.938 / 10

Documentary

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

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire (2022)
7 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie, History

De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)
8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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...

Opium and the Stick (1970)
7.5 / 10

Action, Drama, War

In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to...

América, do Sul (2024)
0 / 10

Drama, Comedy

Who Will Burry The Dead? (2016)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and...

Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização (1984)
0 / 10

Documentary

The film deals with the judgment of the so-called "compromised", who integrated the colonial apparatus. At Josina Machel school, in an amphitheater...

The Charcoal Maker (1973)
10 / 10

Drama

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...

PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial (2023)
10 / 10

Documentary

PsiQuis: Un Giro Decolonial is a documentary that presents and discusses the psychological impact that colonialism has had on the Puerto Rican...

México, México: Mexique en mouvement (1968)
0 / 10

Documentary

"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its...

Thacker Pass: Mining The Sacred (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate entities...

La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte (2018)
10 / 10

Documentary

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from...

Listen to Britain (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

This spiritual successor to the 1942 original explores the vibrant yet tumultuous growth of Britishness over the past century. The film gives voices...

The Rumba Kings (2021)
9 / 10

Documentary, History, Music

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary, Adventure, Drama

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...

waawiyebii'ige: She Draws a Circle (1969)
0 / 10

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...

Queering Yoga (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

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

Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

Un-Documented argues against Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s film Statues Also Die (1963). Focusing on plundered objects in European museums and...