This article is a selection of films and series both fictional and non-fictional which involve imperialism as a major theme.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Films
| Year | Title | Director | Genre | Themes |
| 1936 | A Message to Garcia | George Marshall | Historical drama | Spanish-American War |
| 1939 | The Four Feathers | Zoltan Korda | Historical drama | Mahdist War |
| 1941 | Ohm Krüger | Hans Steinhoff | Historical drama | Boer War |
| 1945 | Burma Victory | Roy Boulting | Historical drama | Burma Campaign |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | Biographical | World War I |
| 1966 | Khartoum | Basil Dearden | Historical drama | Siege of Khartoum |
| 1967 | The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | Historical drama | Algerian Revolution |
| 1970 | Shangani Patrol | David Millin | Historical drama | British colonialism |
| 1972 | Sambizanga | Sarah Maldoror | Historical drama | Angolan War of Independence |
| 1972 | A Luta Continua | Robert Van Lierop | Historical drama | Mozambican War of Independence |
| 1979 | Zulu Dawn | Douglas Hickox | Historical drama | Battle of Isandlwana |
| 1980 | Lion of the Desert | Moustapha Akkad | Historical drama | Italy in Lybya |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough | Biographical | Indian Independence Movement |
| 1982 | Missing | Costa-Gavras | Historical drama | Chilean coup of 1973 |
| 1985 | Revolution | Hugh Hudson | Historical drama | American Revolutionary War |
| 1986 | Salvador | Oliver Stone | Historical drama | Salvadoran Civil War |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | Historical drama | Revolution, Ireland |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Mel Gibson | Historical drama | Revolution, Great Britain |
| 1994 | Arende | Dirk de Villiers | Historical drama | Anglo Boer War |
| 1996 | Michael Collins | Neil Jordan | Biographical | Revolution, Ireland |
| 1997 | Rough Riders | John Milius | Historical drama | Spanish-American War |
| 1998 | Jose Rizal | Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Biographical | Philippine Revolution |
| 1999 | Adwa | Haile Gerima | Historical drama | Battle of Adwa |
| 2000 | Lumumba | Raoul Peck | Biographical | Congolese National Movement |
| 2000 | The Patriot | Roland Emmerich | Historical drama | American Revolutionary War |
| 2006 | Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man | Robin Shuffield | Documentary | Revolution, Burkina Faso |
| 2007 | Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Charles Burnett | Historical drama | Namibian War of Independence |
| 2007 | The War on Democracy | John Pilger | Historical drama | US Imperialism |
| 2008 | Baler | Mark Meily | Historical drama | Philippine Revolution |
| 2010 | Hidalgo: The story never told | Antonio Serrano | Biographical | Mexican War of Independence |
| 2010 | Revolución: el cruce de los Andes | Leandro Ipiña | Historical drama | Argentina War of Independence |
| 2010 | Françafrique | Patrick Benquet | Historical drama | African post colonialism |
| 2010 | Outside the Law | Rachid Bouchareb | Historical drama | Revolution, Algeria |
| 2010 | Amílcar Cabral | Ana Ramos Lisboa | Documentary | Revolution, Guinea Bisseau |
| 2012 | Toussaint Louverture | Philippe Niang | Biographical | Haitian Revolution |
| 2013 | Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom | Justin Chadwick | Biographical | Anti-Apartheid Movement |
| 2013 | The Liberator | Alberto Arvelo | Historical drama | Revolution, South America |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | Werner Herzog | Historical drama | British colonialism |
| 2016 | Kalushi | Mandla Dube | Historical drama | Revolution, South Africa |
| 2006 | Revolution Selfie | Steven de Castro | Documentary | Revolution, Philippines |
| 2019 | Ginnen Upan Seethala | Anuruddha Jayasinghe | Biographical | Revolution, Sri Lanka |
| |
See also
References
- ^ Grieveson, Lee; MacCabe, Colin (2017-10-26). Empire and Film. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-349-92498-1.
- ^ Chapman, James; Cull, Nicholas J. (2009-07-15). Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-84511-940-9.
- ^ Grieveson, Lee; MacCabe, Colin (2019-07-25). Film and the End of Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-570-0.
- ^ Prince, Stephen (1992-06-30). Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-275-93662-4.
- ^ Landy, Marcia (2001-01-01). The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-485-30096-3.
- ^ Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (2007). History goes to the movies: studying history on film. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 978-0-415-32828-9.
- ^ Rosenstone, Robert A. (2017). History on Film/Film on History. doi:10.4324/9781315113654. ISBN 9781315113654.
- ^ Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey; Nowell-Smith, Project Director for European Filmography and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Center Geoffrey (1996-10-17). The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-19-811257-0.
- ^ Jaikumar, Priya (2006-05-03). Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8774-9.