There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This documentary traces the progression of colonial history from the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 to the systematic elimination of cultural traditions, religions and lifeways which would occur sporadically through genocides and warfare until the early 20th century throughout the African continent—surveying the inquiries and movements for historical justice, the relationships between European institutions and colonial violence and following enduring struggles against these organisations to regain what was taken.

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140...

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

This docu-fiction recounts the difficulties overcome by an ALN detachment whose perilous mission i...

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts ...

“La Voix du Peuple,” composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root ...

Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1...

This documentary by director Claire Billet and historian Christophe Lafaye details the massive and s...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

Born to an Algerian father and a Sicilian mother in Tunisia, I have always been wealthy of three cul...

The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is d...

Through the commitment of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, this documentary traces the history of the march of th...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...