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51. Laponia (2018)
58 min | History
This is the story of the Sami, the indigenous peoples of northern Europe, and their history - from the origins two thousand years ago until today.
Votes: 18
52. London: The Modern Babylon (2012)
Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary, History, Music
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Keith Allen, Michael Gambon, Steve Jones, Bill Nighy
Votes: 657
53. False Alarm (2021)
53 min | Documentary
The surreal, traumatic, and revelatory fallout from the morning when everyone on Hawai'i thought a nuclear missile strike was imminent.
Director: Nick Lyell
Votes: 12
54. Séraphin (1950)
102 min | Drama
À l'été 1890, le curé Labelle pousse à la colonisation. Pour fuir Séraphin et la femme qu'il aimait, Donalda, Alexis s'est marié et établi sur une terre. Tous se liguent pour prendre leur revanche sur l'haïssable Séraphin.
Director: Paul Gury | Stars: Hector Charland, Nicole Germain, Guy Provost, Suzanne Avon
Votes: 66
55. Dragonriders of Pern
Sci-Fi | Announced
On search for a young woman to ride the last queen dragon on Pern, F'lar finds Lessa, a unique young woman who must save an entire species, the dragons, so they can fulfill their most ... See full summary »
56. La araucana (1971)
R | 100 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of Alonso de Ercilla's 16th-century epic poem about the Spanish conquest of Chile.
Director: Julio Coll | Stars: Elsa Martinelli, Venantino Venantini, Víctor Barrera, Julio Peña
Votes: 59
57. Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills (1982 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Iron Maiden performs in the music video "Run to the Hills" from the album "The Number of the Beast" recorded for EMI Records. The music video features the band performing on a darkened ... See full summary »
Director: David Mallet | Stars: Iron Maiden, Clive Burr, Bruce Dickinson, Steve Harris
Votes: 61
58. Rammstein: Ausländer (2019 Music Video)
5 min | Music
"Ausländer" (German for "Foreigner") is a song by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. It was released as the third single from the band's untitled seventh studio album; it received a... See full summary »
Director: Joern Heitmann | Stars: Richard Kruspe, Paul Landers, Till Lindemann, Flake Lorenz
Votes: 225
59. Die Wüstenrose (2000 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Hans Werner | Stars: Birge Schade, Walter Sittler, Ralf Bauer, Mariella Ahrens
Votes: 25
60. Rio 2016 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony (2016 TV Special)
234 min | Music, Sport
Coverage of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as over 78,000 people gather to watch an elaborate show of dance, music and unity.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Daniela Thomas, Andrucha Waddington | Stars: Gisele Bündchen, Michael Phelps, Judi Dench, Fernanda Montenegro
Votes: 402
61. In the Beginning was Water and Sky (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A haunting and visually stunning fairy tale that blends fantasy and real life events. Two Native American children struggle to find their way back to a home that may be lost forever.
Director: Ryan Ward | Stars: Norma-Sue Hill, Shohnáhose Davin Bomberry, Carter Simon, Jenna Clause
Votes: 15
62. Birchpunk (2020–2021)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Scenes from different cities in Russia of the future, where technological progress is in harmony with the mysterious Russian soul.
Stars: Sergey Chikhachyov, Daniil Eydlin, Darya Peskova, Alexey Epishev
Votes: 116
63. Brazil: An Inconvenient History (2000)
47 min | Documentary
At first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals, sultry samba, divine football and a vibrantly diverse people. But behind this dazzling facade lies a ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Grabsky | Stars: Sean Barrett, Joao Jose Reis, John Hemming, Hakim Adi
Votes: 37
64. A Man and His Sin (1949)
112 min | Drama
In the mountain of the north of Montreal (in Canada), in the colonization period, Seraphin a greed man is mostly the only one to have some money between the inhabitants. He used it as an ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Gury | Stars: Hector Charland, Nicole Germain, Guy Provost, Henri Poitras
Votes: 72
65. Petra
Short, Sci-Fi | Completed
Security Officer 147 wakes up in a cryopod, 30 years older than he should be, 330 years after the world ran out of resources, and he's the only surviving colonist. With the help of his AI OS Theta, Riler must find Atom Eva to stay alive.
Director: Jon Lang | Stars: Kendall Chappell, Michael Graham
66. Sejnane (1974)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kemal studies in the Sadiki boarding school. Since the death of his father who was murdered by a secret colonial organization, Kemal has doubts about the political situation of Tunisia.
Director: Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Stars: Samir Ayadi, Munirah Ben-Arafah, Bchira Cherif, Kamal El-Tawati
Votes: 19
67. Utopia Planitia (2019– )
Sci-Fi
When a company executive dies under mysterious circumstances by "natural causes", three people begin separate investigations that expose secrets that may ultimately unravel an idyllic Martian colony.
Stars: Reyna Rios, Nelle June Anderson, Kendra Alaura, Rose of Dolls
Votes: 9
68. Brave New Land (2000)
104 min | Drama, War
A young Portuguese cartographer in the 18th century finds new forms of love, war and a wild new world in an expedition into South American heart.
Director: Lúcia Murat | Stars: Diogo Infante, Floriano Peixoto, Luciana Rigueira, Leonardo Villar
Votes: 330
69. Guerriers et captives (1989)
99 min | Drama
In 1880s Patagonia, Argentina, Colonel Garay is put in charge of securing the new railroad that will help the European colonization effort. The local tribes rebel and plan an attack. Garay's misfit wife tutors a captured tribeswoman.
Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Federico Luppi, Leslie Caron, China Zorrilla
Votes: 46
70. Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Une ville, des histoires (2013)
88 min | Documentary, History
Celebrating the 150 years of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, the film tells the story of the town with reenactment of key moments in its history, intercut with festivities of the 150th and ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Fradette | Stars: Suzanne Champagne, Louis Champagne, Sylvio Archambault, Gaetan Nadeau
71. The Great Indian Wars 1840-1890 (1991)
96 min | Documentary, War, Western
Documentation of the encroachment of European settlers upon Native American lands and the violent reaction of the Indians in their struggle to survive.
Stars: Jack Hanrahan, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 85
72. The Book of Secrets (2017)
70 min | Horror
A film about one book that makes the world in danger.
Directors: Shalom Kolontarov, Yakov Kolontarov | Stars: Tiffany Browne-Tavarez, Mickey Deymon, Nahuel Gorosito, Lior Kolontarov
Votes: 438
73. La nave de los locos (1995)
104 min | Drama
In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits ... See full summary »
Director: Ricardo Wullicher | Stars: Luis Abeijón, José Maria Acosta, Aldo Braga, Carlos Buganem
Votes: 151
74. Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things (2016)
71 min | Documentary, History, News
Not the only gay 'Eskimo'.
Directors: Mark Kenneth Woods, Michael Yerxa | Stars: Jack Anawak, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Allison Brewer, Franco Buscemi
Votes: 377
75. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018)
77 min | Documentary
"Those Who Come, Will Hear" proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Plouffe | Stars: Margie Hoff, Jean-Paul Echaquan, Joseph Guanish, Philip Einish
Votes: 10
76. Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa (2010 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama, History
Director: Joël Calmettes | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Carlo Brandt, Pierre Banderet
Votes: 30
77. Please Pray for West Papua (2019)
76 min | Documentary
In the 1960's the people of West Papua were given the Vote of Free Choice by the UN. The West Papuan people call it the "Vote of no choice!" The Indonesian Military were allowed to assemble... See full summary »
Director: Roisin Clarke
78. La nao Capitana (1947)
87 min | Drama
The Capitana ship departs from Seville to the West Indies. There travel don Antonio, his wife Estrella and their daughters Leonor and Trinidad. On the high seas a stowaway is discovered, a ... See full summary »
Director: Florián Rey | Stars: Paola Barbara, Manuel Luna, José Nieto, Raquel Rodrigo
Votes: 18
79. Branca
120 min | Drama, History | Announced
Betrayed by her own sister, Branca is thrown in jail for heresy and forced to endure a grueling trial in Lisbon 1540s. She challenges the power of the Catholic Church and flees to Brazil with her twelve children in 1545.
80. The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Drama, History
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Grant Mitchell, Charles Waldron, James Stephenson, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 118
81. Décolonisations (2020– )
Documentary, History
An history of decolonization, told through the colonized point of view, in 3 chapters: 'Learning', 'Liberation' and 'The world is ours'
Stars: Reda Kateb, Sebastian Kowski, Laurent Lederer, Alice Seeley Harris
Votes: 81
82. The Insular Empire: America in the Marianas (2010 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Director: Vanessa Warheit
83. Douai 1962 (2015)
16 min | Short, Crime, History
February 1962 in Douai, a town located in the north of France. A police squad burts at dawn into the Ducateaus house to search around. François Ducateau, the father, is suspected of a ... See full synopsis »
Director: Anaïs Venturi | Stars: Alexandre Picot, Isabelle Vitari, Nicolas Buchoux, Geoffroy Boutan
84. Dreams of Allon
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
They have dreams too. Try to understand. They are not like you but that is not really any threat to you. If you lived in space the situation would change you. Perhaps then, it would make sense.
Director: Victoria Angelique | Star: Jessica Staples
85. Waiting for the (t)rain (2015)
24 min | Documentary, Short
A small village lost in a dusty desert in Burkina's bush. Two times a week passes the train. Various food items and water bottles thrown by the passengers while passing by constitute the ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Panay
86. The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus (1980 TV Movie)
98 min | Documentary, Drama
The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, in 1922. The film is focused on a couple of important events in their impressive lives, ... See full summary »
Director: Zelimir Zilnik | Stars: Buda Brakus, Spasoje Ilic, Rade Kantar, Cetko Obradovic
87. La fabulosa Casablanca (2016)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Casablanca evokes romance, freedom fighters and magic. Under the myth built by Hollywood lies a town full of stories, such as that of the Spanish community that played a key role to turn Casablanca in the French colonial pearl in Africa.
Director: Manuel Horrillo | Stars: Pedro Casablanc, Angel Velasco, Mariví Carrillo, Fernando Jiménez
Votes: 7
88. Woman Is Courage (2003)
58 min | Documentary, Biography, War
This fascinating and emotionally gripping documentary by director Amine Rachedi narrates the story of Louisette Ighilahriz, a young Algerian woman who joined the national liberation ... See full summary »
Director: Amine Rachedi | Star: Louisa Ighilahriz
90. Blood on the Balcony (1962)
92 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary on the rise of Fascism in Italy after World War I and the developing cult of its leader, the dictator Benito Mussolini.
Director: Pasquale Prunas | Stars: Romolo Valli, Galeazzo Ciano, Engelbert Dollfuss, Francisco Franco
Votes: 27
91. Het doodde de wolken (1992)
150 min | Documentary
Director: Pat van Boeckel | Star: Bill Wahpepah
92. Going Places with Graham McNamee, #72 (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
Rhodesia, a land carved out of veldt and jungle, is revealed in this entry of Universal's "Going Places" series. Due to Cecil Rhodes, who foresaw the possibilities of the fertile plains, ... See full summary »
Star: Graham McNamee
93. El grito de la selva (2008)
95 min | Drama
A logging company enters the indigenous community of Beni in Bolivia and begins logging. They hire local people make promises of the benefits they will receive, but the Indians gradually ... See full summary »
Directors: Nicolás Ipamo, Alejandro Noza, Iván Sanjinés | Stars: Antonia Gualujna, Maria Veronica
Votes: 8
94. Paraguay, corazón de América (1961)
Documentary, Short
Director: Ernesto Giménez Caballero | Star: Ignacio Mateo
95. Arktika: The Russian Dream That Failed (2004)
52 min
A history of Russian imperialism in the Arctic. Begins in the Czarist era and proceeds through the communist revolution up to the present day, charting the environmental and human impact of... See full summary »
Director: Gary Marcuse
96. Magnética (2020)
16 min | Animation, Short
Magnética, an experimental animated short film, is a psychoactive allegory about the dazzle.
Director: Marco Arruda | Stars: Ricardo Assoni, Gabriel Marinho, Marisa Rotenberg
Votes: 12
97. Dear Alaska,
Documentary | Post-production
A young Native embarks on a journey of healing alongside Indigenous relatives, combating the lasting legacies of colonization along the way.
Director: Moriah Hayes | Stars: Natasha Baumgartner, Naomi Michalsen, Anthony Hurtado, Brenna Deasy
99. Yaa Asantewa and the Gold Kingdom (2001)
65 min | Documentary
A biography of the Ashanti queen mother and general who repelled the British forces at Kumasi.
Directors: LJ Aryeetey, Tom Ribeiro