Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.
In colonial Singapore during World War Two, this epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world events.
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
Táto 3-dielna dokumentárna séria sa zaoberá málo známymi okolnosťami rušenia kolónií - procesom dekolonizácie tzv. Tretieho sveta. Pád európskych impérií spôsobil aj rozpad ich koloniálnych ríš - a to už od roku 1885. S použitím vzácnych archívnych dokumentov, lokálnych filmov a animácie vám tvorcovia tejto série priblížia celý proces osamostatnenia kolonizovaných krajín - na ceste k dnešnému globalizujúcemu sa svetu.
In the sweltering Dutch East Indies, the European colonizers are plagued by a hidden force; a combination of tropical magic, Eastern inscrutability and mutual incomprehension. Blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people, resident Van Oudyck, his son, daughter and seductive wife slowly but surely fall prey to this mysterious force...
Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837 to the end of the Second Empire.
A look into the Belgian colonisation of Congo through interviews of both colonials as Congolese people that lived it.