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.
In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
A domineering mother, a religious sect, a failed romance and a pregnancy lead to tragic events for a disturbed woman
During a protracted drought, Solem uses her magical powers to protect her village from evil spirits. She also provides food, searching the wilderness for edible plants. During one foraging mission, she encounters an evil spirit who impregnates her. Solem's fellow villagers believe her power to be derived from her virginity, and when she gives birth they ostracize her. She then embarks on a quest to purify herself and restore balance to the world.
The film is listed as a documentary on the Grenadian Revolution, traces Grenada’s early history, analyzes the impact of European colonialism and explains the evolution of modern Grenadian society.
The story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Love collides with social class and colonialism when Aba Appiah, born to privilege, falls in love with Joe Quansah, son of a fisherman. Her father, retired civil servant Kofi Appiah, has other plans for her and seeks to block their marriage.
A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.
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.
A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
A man who spent seven years in a Haitian jail sacrifices all for revenge upon his torturer.
Haitian Song is an anthropological film about farmers in rural Haiti. The film follows Gustav and Zillmen and the everyday rituals that mark their lifestyle.
For centuries, the religion of Vodou has been thought of as sticking pins in dolls or witchcraft. It has been kept underground and practiced in secret, giving way too much misunderstanding and sensationalism.
The resilience of traditional African religions practiced in the United States.
An award-winning documentary classic about the exploitation and foreign domination of the Haitian people.
Historical footage from Rhodesia in the 1970's.
Propaganda film produced to document the Rhodesian conflict and birth of Zimbabwe.
Two Zimbabwean women meet unexpectedly and recall their roles 20 years earlier as freedom fighters.
Considered one of the first Peruvian social films, the short film Cimarrones narrates the episode in which a group of rebellious slaves who led a life of freedom far from the cities, assault a caravan and free two slaves that the Spanish settlers took to be executed.
This film explores the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and 1960s.
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.
Documentary charting the spirit, political beliefs, and actions of former President of Mozambique, Samora Machel.
