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91
8.2
/23485/
83
/639/
79
/244/
4.6
/100518/
100
/105/
100
/64/
93
/24/

No Other Land (2024)
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
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MGM Plus
84
8.1
/388597/
79
/6222/
77
/3034/
3.9
/130371/
91
/188/
94
/12273/
79
/40/
cc age 15+

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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Kanopy
77
6.7
/7604/
68
/233/
66
/162/
3.6
/22729/
96
/115/
58
/40/
89
/26/

Zama (2017)
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
6.6
/2921/
68
/190/
63
/77/
3.3
/2933/
90
/41/
77
/22/

High Ground (2021)
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
78
69
7.7
/6411/
75
/121/
70
/82/
3.8
/2886/
95
/364/

Sometimes in April (2005)
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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74
66
7.6
/12297/
75
/168/
75
/158/
3.7
/2607/
71
/18/
cc age 18+

Shooting Dogs (2006)
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
poster
58
5.8
/3163/
61
/40/
53
/39/
3.0
/1235/
76
/17/
37
/19/

Sweet Liberty (1986)
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
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Netflix
74
57
6.6
/2036/
72
/143/
71
/88/
3.6
/4036/
83
/6/
83
/19/
cc age 15+

Trees of Peace (2021)
Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
57
7.6
/3884/
72
/93/
72
/63/
3.5
/1140/
50
/10/
88
/383/
57
/8/

Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Its mission, to ensure the ceasefire, is underfunded, excessively bureaucratized and made up of military units which come from dozens of countries and which each have a very different program... These are Lt Gen Dallaire's efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
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Criterion Channel
68
56
6.1
/2855/
59
/67/
64
/84/
3.7
/9116/
86
/7/
65
/30/

India Song (1975)
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
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AMC+
61
49
5.8
/2861/
56
/20/
80
/23/
2.6
/6876/

Sugar Mill (2025)
A group of young men and women who work as seasonal workers in a sugar factory face terror from the kingdom of demons where the factory is located. They must find out the cause of the demons' anger, before the terror ends their lives.
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74
46
6.1
/40486/
83
/38/
89
/18/
3.3
/2890/

Color of Victory (2024)
The days when Istanbul was occupied as a result of the Armistice of Mudros after the First World War and the Fenerbahce football team won the "Harington Cup".
poster
69
45
6.6
/956/
69
/91/
71
/163/
3.6
/4913/

Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
poster
76
44
8.1
/1103/
65
/11/
54
/7/
3.6
/254/
90
/48/
91
/114/
80
/19/

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2005)
The story of Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire and his controversial command of the United Nations mission to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. The documentary was inspired by the book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda which was published in 2003.
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70
27
7.2
/344/
60
/17/
68
/28/
3.9
/1031/

Afrique 50 (1950)
The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to document educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he actually saw: “a lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples.” For his role in the film, Vautier was imprisoned for several months. The film was banned from public screening for more than 40 years.
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Criterion Channel
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23
6.2
/454/
59
/11/
58
/13/
3.4
/508/
62
/101/

Adieu Bonaparte (1985)
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.
poster
65
18
7.0
/561/
70
/19/
56
/10/
3.2
/1048/

Desmundo (2002)
The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.
poster
The Roku Channel
42
18
5.1
/1117/
42
/26/
49
/29/
2.4
/1191/
21
/4/

Time to Kill (1989)
During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the nearest army hospital, losing his sanity in the process.
poster
44
11
5.9
/523/
48
/6/
38
/6/
27
/188/

Soldiers Three (1951)
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
poster
57
11
5.5
/355/
55
/12/
52
/19/
3.3
/235/

Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017)
We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
poster
60
11
6.5
/463/
64
/5/
59
/14/
55
/5/

The Roses of the Desert (2006)
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
poster
?
6.9
/220/

November 1828 (1979)
A group of Javanese villagers are driven to revolt against the Dutch colonialists in this historical drama, which revolves around the themes of loyalty and treachery.
poster
?
6.9
/12/

'94 Terror
Keza, a survivor of the Tutsi and Hutu slaughter that happened in the 1994 Rwanda genocide tells the struggle and loss of her beloved family that she went through until the river Kagera that enabled her to cross to Uganda.
poster
?
10
/1/

Gefährliche Jagd (1950)
A humorous documentary about a historic hunt in 1929 through the African savannah and Indian jungle with lots of animal footage.
poster
The Roku Channel
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6.6
/200/

Twin Rivers (2007)
Set in 1939 Australia, two brothers embark on a 500 mile journey on foot across New South Wales following a dream. A chance encounter with a fellow traveler changes the course of their journey and ultimately, the course of their lives.
poster
?
7.9
/18/
80
/1/

Audrey Napanangka (2023)
The story of a Warlpiri woman, Audrey, and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for together. Audrey Napanangka was born at a time when the world was changing for the people in the Central Australian Desert. Settler colonisation was permeating the desert and forced changes and the fusion of two worlds shifted Audrey’s life forever. Today, Audrey raises young people to walk in many worlds, by centering culture, language, and Law in their lives alongside mainstream education. The intimate footage filmed over 10 years in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Yuendumu and Audrey’s Warlpiri country Mount Theo, showcases a heartwarming story about the power of kinship and family in what is known as Australia.
poster
?
7.0
/67/
60
/1/

The Colonial Friend (2004)
In 1940 France went to war against Germany and announced not only the mobilization of its territory, but also of its colonies. Senegalese family man Aby enlists in the army, distinguishes himself in battle, and is captured. But when he returns to his country, the French army refuses to pay him for his services.
poster
?
7.1
/29/
45
/2/

Uprising in Guria (1929)
Movie takes place in 1841 Georgia region of Guria, in where peasants are plotting the uprising against the Russian government.
poster
?
5.9
/68/
13
/3/

Hunting Party (2015)
Five friends go out for the best night of their lives and their last together. To hunt for love, cheap drinks and salvation.
poster
?
7.8
/96/
57
/4/
65
/2/
100
/10/
73
/1/

My Neighbor, My Killer (2009)
The people of Rwanda attempt to reconcile after the genocide through an open process of admission and forgiveness.
poster
?
5.7
/45/
66
/3/
60
/1/

Red White and Boo (1955)
Through the use of a Time Machine, Casper the Friendly Ghost gets transported back in time, In the stone-age, Casper frightens cave-men and women. Robert Fulton's steamboat makes a successful first trip when Casper's ghostly form frightens it into action. Casper assists Paul Revere on his famous ride when Revere's horse, frightened by Casper, ceases to balk and breaks into a gallop. George Washington, crossing the Delaware River, is sped up by Casper's appearance, and Casper becomes a hero by besting the British Redcoats.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
58
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6.5
/117/
61
/9/
50
/1/

The Boer War: 1899-1902 (1992)
Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number. The Boer War: 1899-1902 was a turning point in British military history and would revolutionize tactics, battlefield strategy, equipment, and training. Well known participants in the Boar Wars include: Harry "Breaker" Morant, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.3
/22/
80
/1/
63
/3/

The Last Tasmanian (1978)
The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Rockefeller Family and Colonial Williamsburg (1992)
A vision shared by philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin enabling the restoration of the eighteenth-century capital of Williamsburg, Virginia is chronicled through archival photos and film accompanied by oral histories.
poster
?
7.4
/62/
60
/1/
70
/2/

Opération Turquoise (2007)
N/A
poster
70
?
7.1
/98/
65
/4/
75
/11/

Rwanda (2019)
Two white Italian actors play Black Rwandans in a fact-based tale set during the Rwanda genocide.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.6
/91/
20
/1/
42
/5/
54
/5/

100 Days (2001)
The film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children. Josette miraculously survives, but she is only a husk of the woman that she was. As the Tutsis regroup, they exact terrible revenge.
poster
?
8.0
/31/

The Diary of Immaculée (2006)
In this moving documentary, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Peter LeDonne and Steve Kalafer chronicle the extraordinary life of Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young African woman who escaped genocide in Rwanda and ultimately found refuge in the United States. Seeking shelter with an Episcopalian minister, Immaculée hid from her attackers inside a bathroom for three long months but stayed centered through prayer and faith.
poster
?
5.8
/87/
60
/1/
42
/2/

Blackout (2010)
Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massacres. He meets Clément, a student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancée Alice hasn’t been able to leave Rwanda. Antoine convinces Clément to go back with him to look for Alice, and to let him film the journey. Their pact soon becomes untenable as they find themselves thrown into chaos. This is a journey through horror during which a young man’s First World illusions are stripped away as he wakes up to human tragedy.
poster
66
?
6.6
/161/
58
/6/
62
/8/
3.4
/432/
80

Ganga Zumba (1963)
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
poster
59
?
6.5
/159/
53
/9/

Amok (1934)
Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness which turns innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day, he is called on by Helene Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns from abroad. Even though Holk is enchanted by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Rejected, the woman turns to a Chinese practitioner. When Holk tracks her down in a dirty dive, it's already too late for the two of them.
poster
60
?
5.7
/143/
62
/8/
63
/6/

The Outlaw Michael Howe (2013)
1814. Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial government to breaking point. Driven by a deep sense of loyalty and an unquenchable hatred towards those he once served, English convict Michael Howe and a young aboriginal girl turn a desperate band of convicts, deserters and bushmen into a fearsome guerrilla army and lead them in open rebellion against the brutal, corrupt establishment. As the British hunt the outlaws, Howe remains an elusive prize. In desperation, the Governor makes the capture of Howe’s pregnant girl his priority. 

An epic story of love and betrayal, The Outlaw Michael Howe chronicles the astonishing true story of the man who pushed Australia to the brink of civil war.
poster
60
?
6.2
/326/
60
/3/
58
/2/

The Day God Walked Away (2009)
In 1994, in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, during the first days of the Tutsi genocide. Jacqueline, a young Tutsi nanny, returns home, in her village, desperately looking for her children. When she finds them lying lifeless among the corpses, Jacqueline takes refuge in the forest, where she gradually sinks into madness...
poster
?

Restoring the Mauri of Lake Omapere
A story of what can happen to water and the people who rely on it. The lake is Omapere, sacred to the Ngapuhi people of Aotearoa, New Zealand. The story is told by the people of the area.
poster
?

close to the bone
Deals with the echoes of a reprisal raid by pastoral settlers against local aboriginals.
poster
?

Flowers of Rwanda (2008)
Rwanda. 14 years after the genocide that took the lives of more than 800,000 people. What situation is the country in now? What feelings reign in the hearts of the victims? Can victims and executioners coexist? What value does education have in a society that has experienced genocide? Can it happen again? Who should act when a genocide is taking place? Do we have any responsibility as individuals?
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?

The Faces We Lost (2017)
A documentary about how Rwandans use personal and family photographs to remember and commemorate the loved ones they lost in the 1994 genocide.


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