Miniserie documental de 4 episodios sobre la conquista del Nuevo Mundo.
Sudáfrica, 1823. El imperio zulú, encabezado por el rey Shaka, un brillante pero despiadado estratega militar, comienza a hostigar a los habitantes de la colonia británica de Ciudad del Cabo. Un grupo de exploradores voluntarios, mercenarios y soldados profesionales son enviados a Zululandia para intentar establecer contacto con Shaka y evaluar la amenaza real de su ejército.
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.
La historia se centra en una familia británica, los Blackett, que controlan una de las empresas comerciales líderes en el Singapur de la era colonial; y en el hijo de su socio, Matthew Webb. Walter Blackett está interesado en que el joven se case con su hija Joan, pero Matthew está interesado en cambio en una misteriosa mujer china, Vera Chiang. Cuando los japoneses invaden y ocupan Singapur, la pareja se ve obligada a separarse.
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
In the sweltering Dutch East Indies, the European colonizers are plagued by a hidden force; a combination of tropical magic, Eastern inscrutability and mutual incomprehension. Blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people, resident Van Oudyck, his son, daughter and seductive wife slowly but surely fall prey to this mysterious force...
The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still resonates and reverberates to this day.
A look into the Belgian colonisation of Congo through interviews of both colonials as Congolese people that lived it.
Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837 to the end of the Second Empire.
