Nøkkelord Colonisation

Bli med på et storslagent eventyr, i et like storslagent miljø. Opplev den fargerike og musikalske fortellingen om den vakre indianerprinsessen Pocahontas! Her får du møte henne sammen med vennene hennes, den glupske vaskebjørnen Meeko og den vimsete kolibrien Flit. En dag kommer sjøfareren John Smith til jungelen deres, og når han møter Pocahontas forelsker de seg i hverandre. Men John Smiths sjef, den grådige guvernør Ratcliffe, har ikke reist over stormfulle hav for å finne kjærligheten. Har har reist til indianernes land for å finne gull - og det for enhver pris!

Den fattige soldaten Ludvig Kahlen ankommer den karrige Jyllandsheien i 1755 med et eneste mål; Å følge kongens oppfordring om å dyrke den antatt ufruktbare jorden og derved oppnå rikdom og ære. Men Kahlen får raskt en fiende. Den nådeløse godseieren, Frederik De Schinkel, som er enehersker av området, mener at området tilhører han og ikke kongen. Da De Schinkels festebonde stikker av og sammen med sin kone Ann Barbara søker tilflukt hos Kahlen, gjør godseieren alt for å drive Kahlen vekk og samtidig ta en grusom hevn. Men Kahlen gir seg ikke, tar opp den harde kampen mot overmakten og risikerer dermed både sitt eget liv og båndet til den lille familien som har vokst frem rundt ham på heia.

Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.

The Martian Chronicles deals with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there.

A hundred years after Europeans set foot in the New World, Brazil still remains largely unexplored. The Conquest recounts the saga of the earliest adventurers who wandered through these unknown lands. Jesuit priests, adventurers seeking gold, slaves and indigenous tribes were entangled in unceasing battles, at a time when laws were made by the sharp edge of a sword.

Guy Moeyaert is a well-meaning colonial official in a jungle district of the Belgian Congo in the last years of white colonial rule, after the Second World War, a paternalistic system where the state, unable to be properly present all over the vast, sparsely populated country, collaborates systematically with the Roman Catholic missions -in his post, father Alexis- and private enterprise, in case mainly the mining company -locally represented by engineer Lenaers- which also helps out with money and labor for such public tasks as road building. Even his grip on the natives is weak, as they live under hereditary tribal leaders, which must take from its people what they are legally obliged to deliver to the state in taxes and labor; coercion is done by force, including whipping on the bare buttocks, which Guy hates. Guy also starts a love affair with Hélène Vermarcke, who gets estranged from her husband Luk (the three were already friends in Belgium) as he devotes all his efforts the their plantation, leaving her alone with the native staff and their son, or is it Guy's? The adultery makes his position in the white community far weaker then is compatible with his position of theoretical authority without sufficient independent means. He also depends heavily on his educated black clerk Gabriel Ndazaru and ambitious white deputy Arthur. It all gets worse for everybody as the call for 'dipenda', black independence as in Ghana, gets stronger, in time even accepted 'in principle' by the Belgian government which plans a gradual transition which the idealist Guy supports but all other whites oppose, while the natives have neither patience nor insight and start attacking every symbol of the old regime, regardless of its objective value, and soon white people and 'collaborators' too- it gets physically dangerous, but Guy won't budge or flee...