Subject: Colonialism
The ideals and acts of one culture dominating another were not just perpetrated by Columbus or the British.
Evangeline
- Director: William Cavanaugh, Edward P. Sullivan
- Release Date: 1913
- Production Country: Canada
When most of the men in Acadia are arrested and deported for the crime of being too French in a British colony, they are followed by a determined young woman, Evangeline, seeking her fiance who was among the deportees; yet, she seems always to be one step behind, even after he and the other imprisoned Acadian men are finally released in Louisiana.
Evangeline
- Director: Edwin Carewe
- Release Date: 1929
- Production Country: United States
When most of the men in Acadia are arrested and deported for the crime of being too French in a British colony, they are followed by a determined young woman, Evangeline, seeking her fiance who was among the deportees; yet, she seems always to be one step behind, even after he and the other imprisoned Acadian men are finally released in Louisiana.
Game for Vultures
- Director: James Fargo
- Release Date: 1979
- Production Country: United Kingdom
African insurgents are desperate to stop a shipment of helicopters from being delivered to the Rhodesian government troops, even as the arms dealer who arranged the purchase is doing everything he can to deliver them. They ultimately end up on an airbase in South Africa, where the disassembled parts have been sanctioned, each one determined to accomplish their mission: to either destroy or liberate the helicopters.
Indochine
- Director: Régis Wargnier
- Release Date: 1992
- Production Country: France
The adopted child of a wealthy French plantation owner, aristocratic Camille has little in common with her Vietnamese countrymen until she runs away from home and is sold as an indentured laborer. Once rescued, Camille joins the Communists who are determined to rid Vietnam of the French; however, she cannot guarantee that those who love her and follow her will appreciate or agree with her choices.
L'Ennemi Intime (Intimate Enemies)
- Director: Florent Emilio Siri
- Release Date: 2007
- Production Country: France, Morocco
An idealistic French lieutenant deals with and eventually succumbs to the brutality enacted by both armies during the Algerian War.
La guerre d'Algérie (The Algerian War)
- Director: Yves Courrière, Philippe Monnier
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: France
Using old news film, music, and voice-overs, the directors provide a historic account of the Algerian War, highlighting missed opportunities, extremist factions, and, overall, the brutality of soldiers on both sides.
La Trahison (The Betrayal)
- Director: Philippe Faucon
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: France, Belgium
Divided loyalties threaten to destroy a French Unit composed of European and Arabic soldiers in the Algerian War.
Le malentendu colonial (The Colonial Misunderstanding)
- Director: Jean-Marie Téno
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: Cameroon, France, Germany
Christian missionaries had huge roles in the destruction of African culture and the European Christian values became the foundation of colonial attitudes and actions in Africa, although, finally, the Namibian Lutheran community triumphed in creating their own uniquely African church.
Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier)
- Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- Release Date: 1960
- Production Country: France
During the Algerian War, the relationship between a young French couple in Geneva is doomed due to their conflicting political loyalties.
Les Roseaux sauvages (Wild Reeds)
- Director: André Téchiné
- Release Date: 1994
- Production Country: France
The Algerian War shapes the world and the lives of four young people in France as they discover truths about themselves.
Lion of the Desert
- Director: Moustapha Akkad
- Release Date: 1981
- Production Country: Libya, United States
A Berber teacher leads a decades-long guerrilla war against Italian forces determined to make Libya the "Fourth Shore" as part of their "glorious" rebirth of the Roman Empire. The teacher's honorable conduct wins the admiration of the general who must fight him, but not the freedom of his people.
Long Night's Journey into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth & Reconciliation
- Director: Deborah Hoffmann, Frances Reid
- Release Date: 2000
- Production Country: United States
During apartheid in South Africa, whites brutalized black residents and black resistance fighters fought back with their own forms of brutality. Once apartheid was abolished, South Africa set out to heal its wounds, establishing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but it is difficult to find forgiveness when there has been hatred and brutality for so long between so many.
Lost Command
- Director: Mark Robson
- Release Date: 1966
- Production Country: United States
French soldiers survive the First Indochina War together only to become embroiled on different sides of the Algerian War.
Lumumba
- Director: Raoul Peck
- Release Date: 2000
- Production Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Patrice Lumumba helps to guide his nation to a peaceful independence, but when he is elected as president and focuses more on African needs and goals, European powers and business interests begin to fear losing their hold over the area and, with the aid of other Congolese factions, the Europeans set out to have Patrice not only removed from power, but also eliminated entirely.
Mon Colonel (The Colonel)
- Director: Laurent Herbiet
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: France, Belgium
Guided by the diary of a soldier who served with The Colonel, a detective investigates the death of the infamous Algerian War officer.
More than Just a Game
- Director: Junaid Ahmed
- Release Date: 2007
- Production Country: South Africa
Guards scoffed and wardens tried to refuse, but political prisoners in one of South Africa's most notorious prisons persevered in their quest to establish a structured soccer league, envisioning it as a trial run for managing a complex modern national government—if they are ever given the chance to do so.
Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (October 17, 1961)
- Director: Alain Tasma
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: France
Various characters provide a complex picture of events leading up to a violent confrontation between Parisian police and Algerian protesters.
Octobre à Paris
- Director: Jacques Panijel
- Release Date: 1961
- Production Country: France
Paris police attack Algerian immigrants protesting France's actions in Algeria, resulting in violence, death, and government cover-ups.
Out of Africa
- Director: Sydney Pollack
- Release Date: 1985
- Production Country: United States
Seeking a new beginning in Africa, Karen Blixen finds the men in her life there as uncontrollable as the landscape itself, from a philandering husband to her doomed love affair with the big game hunter who has gone native. Eventually, broke and broken-hearted, Karen prepares to return to Denmark, bringing nothing with her as she journeys out of Africa.
Paradise Now
- Director: Hany Abu-Assad
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: Palestinian, France, Germany, Netherlands, Israel
Recruited for a suicide bombing attack, two young Palestinian men find their plans thwarted when they are separated at the border. One man returns home while the other makes his way through Tel Aviv, determined to see his mission through; yet as each man has time to rethink his decision, will they (or could they) make a different choice and not set off their bombs?