Keyword French Colonialism
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1973
Papillon
Papillon7.84 1973 HD
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his...
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1992
Indochine
Indochine7.01 1992 HD
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted...
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2011
The Rabbi's Cat
The Rabbi's Cat6.98 2011 HD
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's...
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1963
Le Petit Soldat
Le Petit Soldat6.98 1963 HD
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young...
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1961
Chronicle of a Summer
Chronicle of a Summer7.20 1961 HD
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking...
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1991
Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt5.70 1991 HD
The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. She moved to Annaba in Algeria in 1897 with her...
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1932
Red Dust
Red Dust6.90 1932 HD
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...
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1992
Diên Biên Phu
Diên Biên Phu6.40 1992 HD
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
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2023
Red Island
Red Island5.60 2023 HD
Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism....
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1975
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Chronicle of the Years of Fire6.30 1975 HD
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...
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1985
Hell Train
Hell Train5.40 1985 HD
Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism....
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2005
Dark Night, October 17, 1961
Dark Night, October 17, 19617.30 2005 HD
Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest...
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1976
Black and White in Color
Black and White in Color6.40 1976 HD
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...
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2020
Pornotropic
Pornotropic7.00 2020 HD
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....
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2020
Lost Mountain
Lost Mountain10.00 2020 HD
On November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front of Algeria announced the war for the country's independence. France, colonizer since 1830,...
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1961
Yasmina
Yasmina10.00 1961 HD
"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl with her hen and her family whose father was...
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2017
CHoosing at Twenty
CHoosing at Twenty6.80 2017 HD
Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts...
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1962
The Olive Trees of Justice
The Olive Trees of Justice7.30 1962 HD
The son of a French colonialist in Algeria returns to Algeria after learning that his father is ill. Memories from childhood return. He also must...
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1983
Song of Autumn
Song of Autumn10.00 1983 HD
Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn), is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing...
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1985
À Propos De... L'autre Détail
À Propos De... L'autre Détail9.00 1985 HD
Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses were tortured by Jean-Marie Le Pen. These...
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1974
L’Incendie (El Harik)
L’Incendie (El Harik)10.00 1974 HD
In 1939 in eastern Algeria, Omar, a young boy of ten, lives with his family in a room in Dar Sbitar, a house shared by several families who overcome...
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2020
Decolonisation
Decolonisation8.80 2020 HD
The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.
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2012
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture1 2012 HD
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the...
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2022
Générations guerres d'Algérie
Générations guerres d'Algérie10.00 2022 HD
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2013
Rouge Brésil
Rouge Brésil5.00 2013 HD
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2001
L'Algérie des chimères
L'Algérie des chimères6.00 2001 HD
Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837...