British Colonial Movies

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the...

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her...

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an...

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He...

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers,...

The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their...

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a...

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose...

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. The bitter...

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English...

A short history of the island is followed by views of the countryside and people in town and village.

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...