The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past.
In 1920s New York City, a black woman finds her world up-ended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
Senegalese villagers attempt a revolt against French incursions into tribal life.
In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
This film follows world-changing events in four continents culminating in the brutal sugar cane plantations of the Caribbean.
A documentary that revisits the events of 1953 in Guyanese history, set to a series of poems by the great poet Martin Carter and against the backdrop of the Cold War.
The story of Deacon Paul Bogle. 30 years after the end of slavery in Jamaica, the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 provoked outrage in Victorian Britain shaping race and land attitudes. The story is constructed using extensive interviews with Paul Bogle's grand son as well as archive material.
"Barrow: Freedom Fighter," tells the story about the courage of one man who relentlessly preached a gospel of economic self-reliance and self-respect to the people of his native country Barbados and beyond. He defied the status quo, confronted racism and classicism, fought colonial oppression, and selflessly led his people to political and economic freedom.
The history of how Haiti won its independence, carrying out the first-ever successful slave rebellion.
Built on fragments of memory, the story of a young girl's intuitive struggle for survival in the malevolent political and social environment of Haiti under Papa Doc Duvalier in the 1960s.
An exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
An award-winning documentary classic about the exploitation and foreign domination of the Haitian people.
The neighbourhood troublemaker and a police officer on his first day on duty, reluctantly team up in order to escape Port-of-Spain during the first day of the 1990 attempted coup. They trip over each other’s personalities as they stumble to escape the chaos filled streets of the capital.
The first section of this two-part film highlights the precursors of the steelpan and the creation of the instrument until it gained international recognition in Britain in 1951.
This chronicles the Black Power uprising that took place in Trinidad & Tobago in 1970, and how the movement was influenced by Black activism in Canada and the US in the 1960s.
Two Zimbabwean women meet unexpectedly and recall their roles 20 years earlier as freedom fighters.
Based on true events, a Zimbabwean war story of the battle of Zimbabwe which signified the beginning of the second Chimurenga in fulfillment of Mbuya Nehanda’s last prophetic words.
A brief and dramatic tale about a Reverend, who is kind-hearted and pities foreigners who are being mutilated and murdered in the once-welcoming South Africa. The man behind the catastrophes and brutality is a man named Johnny Khumalo an uptown thug whose motives have sparked nationwide xenophobia.
The story of Viola Desmond, an entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s. The 82nd Heritage Minute in Historica Canada's collection.
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
The story of the 900 Belizean lumberjacks who in 1942 left the tropical rainforests of British Honduras to help Britain fight fascism by felling trees in Scotland.
A family tries to flee the troubled country and they are intercepted along the way...they are to meet face-to-face with the notorious Captain Yusuf who runs a so-called safe house.
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
Otti is abducted by LRA, and raised with no room for escape. Despite this, his love for Aguti remains. In an effort to keep in touch, he writes and delivers letters through the village reverend-only to be discovered by the rebels who raid and abduct the village, including a school where Aguti studied. Upon arrival at the LRA camp, the abductees are paraded before Joseph Kony whose interest falls upon Aguti. The two lovers struggle to keep their love a secret and also plot their escape.
The workers busy digging the mountain for the crossing of the Transgabonais Railway refuse the increase in the price of the buses which take them to the site and decide to go on strike, stirring up the tension between Albert Swami, the President's Chief of Staff, and Vice-President Ikapi, who is acting as the President.
A fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. This film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized.
The history of the city of Libreville, capital of Gabon, from its birth to the present day. The different stages of its development. This film offers a return to the history of the colonization of Gabon and focuses in particular on situating the true context of the treaty signed in 1839.
Bad Bunny's highly anticipated music video El Apagón segues to an 18-minute documentary called Aquí Vive Gente (People Live Here) by journalist, Bianca Graulau. Conozcán la triste realidad de Puerto Rico.
This film explores the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and 1960s.
Evocation of the ruthless war from 1890 to 1894 which opposed the French colonial army of the young Ahydjere Behanzin, king and living god of Dahomey, ending in his surrender and his exile.
Set in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.
The story of the strongest of the slaves whose will was only crushed when he loses his beloved wife.
On behalf of the Dutch government, a secret agent is looking for a journalist who suddenly disappeared in Suriname. He must make his way in a country paralyzed by demonstrations and protests against the military government.
