20161h 40m
13TH (Full Feature)
Ava DuVernay — Netflix
The Thirteenth Amendment, the prison-industrial complex, and the legal continuity from chattel slavery to mass incarceration. Netflix released the entire film free on YouTube.
XIThe Screening Room
What to watch. What to listen to. What to refuse to forget.
58 documentaries, speeches, lectures and feature films on colonialism, slavery, genocide and the long present they produced. Every embed has been checked against a real upload from a studio, broadcaster, university or established archival channel.
A video library, organised by form. Documentaries do the heavy lifting; speeches carry the rhetoric the textbooks scrubbed; lectures supply the numbers; feature films are the dramatisations that reached audiences the archives never would; Third Cinema is what the global South made about itself, without asking permission. None of this is obscure. All of it has been deliberately under-circulated.
Documentaries
Footage the broadcasters keep at the back of the archive.
20162m
I Am Not Your Negro — Trailer
Raoul Peck
Baldwin's unfinished manuscript animated into one of the great essay films of the century. The full film is on streaming services.
20142m
Concerning Violence — Trailer
Göran Hugo Olsson
Archive footage from Africa's liberation wars, narrated with the words of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.
20213m
Exterminate All the Brutes — Director's Statement
Raoul Peck — HBO
Peck on the four-part series tracing European expansion, slavery and genocide as a single continuous project.
202138m
Exterminate All the Brutes — Raoul Peck Interview
Democracy Now!
Peck walking through the series in full, on independent US news.
20152m
The Look of Silence — Trailer
Joshua Oppenheimer
The 1965 Indonesian anti-communist massacres, revisited by the brother of one of the victims.
20132m
The Act of Killing — Trailer
Joshua Oppenheimer
Indonesian death-squad commanders restage their own killings in the genres of their favourite Hollywood films. Watch with The Look of Silence.
20242m
Dahomey — Trailer
Mati Diop — MUBI
Berlinale Golden Bear. Twenty-six looted royal artefacts returned from Paris to Benin, the documentary giving them a voice.
20242m
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat — Trailer
Johan Grimonprez — Kino Lorber
Jazz, the UN, and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Oscar-nominated 2025.
20132m
The Stuart Hall Project — Trailer
John Akomfrah — BFI
A portrait of the Caribbean-born theorist who built British cultural studies and forced Britain to look at itself.
20242m
Stolen Kingdom — Trailer
Antenna Releasing
The contemporary trade in stolen Disney artefacts — used here as a mirror for the world's museum collections.
Speeches & Addresses
The words the textbooks shortened.
196453m
The Ballot or the Bullet (Full Speech)
Malcolm X
Detroit, April 12, 1964. Public domain. The clearest single statement of revolutionary Black politics in the United States.
196453m
The Ballot or the Bullet — Cleveland Audio
Malcolm X
Cleveland, April 3, 1964. The original delivery, restored from the surviving recording.
196757m
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Martin Luther King Jr.
Riverside Church, New York. The speech that lost King most of his liberal allies — exactly one year before his murder.
196317m
I Have a Dream — Full Speech
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Lincoln Memorial. The speech every American school plays. Pair it with Beyond Vietnam.
196558m
Baldwin vs Buckley — Cambridge Union Debate
James Baldwin
"Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" Baldwin wins by 540 votes to 160 in the room. The recording outlasts the question.
19607m
Independence Day Speech (June 30, 1960)
Patrice Lumumba
Kinshasa. The speech Belgium's King Baudouin was forced to sit through. Lumumba was murdered seven months later, with CIA and Belgian complicity.
19876m
On African Debt (subtitled)
Thomas Sankara — OAU Summit
Addis Ababa. On the foreign debt of African nations and who actually owes whom. Sankara was assassinated three months later.
198420m
Sankara — RTS Archive Interview
Radio Télévision Suisse
An on-camera interview from Ouagadougou. In French; the most-watched single Sankara recording on the internet.
19577m
Ghana's Independence Day Speech
Kwame Nkrumah
Accra, March 6, 1957. "Ghana, your beloved country, is free forever." The first sub-Saharan colony to break from European rule.
201515m
Britain Does Owe Reparations — Oxford Union
Shashi Tharoor
11 million views. The Oxford Union speech that travelled further than any of his books.
20176m
Churchill Is No Better Than Hitler
Shashi Tharoor
On the Bengal Famine and the politics of memory.
19695m
On Revolution and Racism
Fred Hampton
Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, on multiracial coalition politics. Murdered by Chicago police, with FBI coordination, aged 21.
200919m
The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — TED
15 million views. On how the West learned to tell only one story about Africa, and what that story does to the listener.
Lectures & Talks
The arguments, in full.
20206m
How Britain Stole $45 Trillion from India
Jason Hickel — VICE
The economic-history argument that put a defensible number on the colonial drain, in short form.
20171h 1m
The Divide: Global Inequality and Its Solutions
Jason Hickel — Talks at Google
The lecture-length version. Hickel walks through the historical mechanics of how the global South was built poor.
199840m
Edward Said on Orientalism
Sut Jhally / MEF
1.3 million views. Said himself, summarising the argument of the book that started a field.
201914m
Decolonising the Mind
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
On the politics of language in African literature, filmed in Nairobi. Ngũgĩ died in 2025.
c. 19801h 16m
Crisis in the Periphery: Africa and the Caribbean
Walter Rodney
The author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, on tape. Rodney was assassinated in Guyana in 1980, aged 38.
20121h 47m
Reconsidering Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Vanderbilt History Seminar
Academic panel revisiting Rodney's classic study, useful as a contemporary companion.
20032h 3m
Slavery and the Prison Industrial Complex
Angela Davis — FIU
Fifth Annual Eric Williams Memorial Lecture. The full case for abolition, by the scholar who has been making it longest.
202126m
On Police and Prison Abolition
Angela Davis — Al Jazeera UpFront
The short version of the argument, after the murder of George Floyd.
199630m
Political Prisoners in the USA
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Recorded from Pennsylvania's death row. Imprisoned since 1981, his conviction still contested.
202519m
5-Step Colonialism, Explained
Uncivilized
A clean modern primer on the operating manual European empires shared.
Feature Films
Fiction that does the work history class wouldn't.
20132m
12 Years a Slave — Trailer
Steve McQueen — Searchlight
Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, filmed with the violence the originals declined to show.
20143m
Selma — Trailer
Ava DuVernay — Paramount
The 1965 voting-rights march. Including the parts of Lyndon Johnson the country prefers to forget.
20182m
BlacKkKlansman — Trailer
Spike Lee — Focus Features
A real 1970s Colorado Springs police investigation of the Klan, edited so the present cannot pretend to be elsewhere.
20212m
Judas and the Black Messiah — Trailer
Shaka King — Warner Bros.
The FBI informant inside the Black Panther Party who set up Fred Hampton's assassination.
20173m
Get Out — Trailer
Jordan Peele — Universal
A horror film about white liberalism. Far more documentary than its genre suggests.
20182m
Black Panther — Trailer
Ryan Coogler — Marvel
A blockbuster that took a clear position on stolen artefacts. The global audience understood instantly.
20223m
The Woman King — Trailer
Gina Prince-Bythewood — Sony
Dahomey's Agojie, on the eve of the colonial wars.
20042m
Hotel Rwanda — Trailer
Terry George — MGM
The 1994 genocide of the Tutsi, told through a single hotelier. Watch alongside Raoul Peck's Sometimes in April.
19882m
Mississippi Burning — Trailer
Alan Parker
The 1964 murders of three civil-rights workers. Hollywood casts the FBI as heroes; the actual investigation was less heroic. Useful precisely for that gap.
19794m
Apocalypse Now — Trailer
Francis Ford Coppola
Conrad's Heart of Darkness moved to Vietnam. A colonial novel about Congo, repurposed to indict the United States.
19772m
Roots — 1977 ABC Premiere Promo
Alex Haley / ABC
The miniseries that put 130 million Americans in front of a televised history of slavery in eight nights.
20023m
Rabbit-Proof Fence — Trailer
Phillip Noyce
Three Aboriginal girls walk 1,500 miles home after being taken by the Australian state under the policies that produced the Stolen Generations.
19931m
Sankofa — Trailer
Haile Gerima — ARRAY
An African American model on a Ghanaian coast is returned to a North American plantation. Independent Black cinema at its most uncompromising.
Third Cinema & Global South
What the colonised made about themselves.
19661h 11m
The Battle of Algiers (Edited, with subtitles)
Gillo Pontecorvo
Studied by liberation movements and counter-insurgency staff colleges alike. Both groups understood it.
1966 / 20162m
The Battle of Algiers — Restoration Trailer
Rialto Pictures
The 4K restoration trailer, for the 50th anniversary theatrical re-release.
19681h 25m
The Hour of the Furnaces, Part I (subtitled)
Solanas & Getino
The founding text of Third Cinema. Neocolonialism in Argentina, traced shot by shot.
1975–79 / 20232m
The Battle of Chile — Restoration Trailer
Patricio Guzmán — Icarus
The destruction of Allende's Chile, filmed as it happened. Listed by Sight & Sound among the greatest documentaries ever made.
20102m
Nostalgia for the Light — Trailer
Patricio Guzmán
Chilean women searching the Atacama for the bones of the disappeared, while astronomers above them look outward.
20192m
Atlantics — Trailer
Mati Diop — Netflix
Unpaid Senegalese construction workers cross the Atlantic, and what their absence does to those who remain.
20061m
Bamako — Trailer
Abderrahmane Sissako
African civil society puts the World Bank and IMF on trial in a Bamako courtyard. The verdict is not the point.
20142m
Timbuktu — Trailer
Abderrahmane Sissako
Northern Mali under jihadist occupation. Made by one of the great living African filmmakers.
20201m
Mangrove (Small Axe) — Trailer
Steve McQueen — BBC / Amazon
The 1970 Mangrove Nine trial in London. The first time a British court conceded that the Metropolitan Police acted from racial hatred.
20201m
Small Axe — Anthology Trailer
Steve McQueen — Amazon
Five films on the West Indian community in London between 1969 and 1985. The companion piece to Mangrove.
20002m
Lumumba (2000) — Trailer
Raoul Peck
The dramatic feature, before Peck made I Am Not Your Negro. Eriq Ebouaney plays Lumumba.
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