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Films
5 Films
Keywords
“Colonialism Postcolonialism”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
2
short films
2
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
Melanesia
2
South Asia
1
West Africa
1
Country
India
1
Nigeria
1
Papua New Guinea
2
Sierra Leone
1
United Kingdom
2
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
5
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History
1
Political Activists
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Sport
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Basu, Paul
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Dineen, Molly
1
Harries, Andy
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Singer, André
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
National Film and Television School
1
not set
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
5
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United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1979
1
1984
1
1992
1
2018
1
Film list
Faces Voices
2018
18
‘
Directed by
Paul Basu
Christopher Thomas Allen
.
The film complicates any simple reading of a colonial photographic archive from Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone that was collected between 1909 and 1915. Through a collaborative creative effort
West Africa
British-Irish Isles
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Home from the Hill
1984
60
‘
Directed by
Molly Dineen
.
Anthropology’s relationship with colonialism has been discussed widely. Yet the ethnography of the colonial service remains largely unexplored on film. This entertaining documentary shows, not
British-Irish Isles
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Khyber
1979
49
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Andy Harries
.
For more than a century Britain was engaged in war with the Pashtun tribesmen of India’s North West frontier. It began with the bloodiest massacre in the history of the British Empire when, in
South Asia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
History
Pepsi War
1992
30
‘
Directed by
Charlie Clay
.
The post-colonial period in Papua New Guinea has seen resurgence in tribal warfare. Pepsi War follows the story of a fight between two clans, which developed from a dispute over cola bottles.
Melanesia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Jerry Leach
.
The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974,
Melanesia
Sport
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists