Colonial Life for Children: Roger Williams and Rhode Island
Colonial Life for Children: Roger Williams and Rhode Island
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Colonial Life for Children: Roger Williams and Rhode Island
In 1932, 120 children of workers were sent to a colony on the island of Oléron, France, where the municipality of Bagnolet, led by the fledgling French Communist Party, managed to create a vacation center.
This is a story of remarkable generosity and considerable personal participation, chronicled here through archival photos and film, a narrative drawn from the record, and the first-person recollections of David Rockefell
This is one of the earliest representations of the Philippines in moving images. Stored in the British Film Institute archives, this administrative reconnaissance film exhibits the Culion leper colony in the province of
Chronicles early history of the Jamestown Colony. Describes voyage and hardships of the first settlers from England and the trials of later arrivals.
Short directed by Georges-André Lacroix.
Colonial Life for Children: St. Augustine
Colonel Smith arrives from the United States and does a lot of trouble in "one big good country" (kills a mushroom, blows a railway bridge with a train, poisons a well, etc.). The creators express hope that the saboteur
The work narrates the social, cultural and political history of the “housing question” in Mumbai, by bringing together cinema, state-sponsored documentary, newspapers, policy reports and archives from social movements, a
The resourcefulness of the Antioqueños to make their constructions despite the mountainous topography.
In the 1960’s and 70’s, the U.K. forced the entire Chagossian population off their homeland so the U.S. could build a military base on the island of Diego Garcia. This film sheds a light on the human rights abuses Chagos
The introduction of Spanish currency into the history of Peru after the Conquest of the Inca Empire.
In this educational DVD. Tracy and Greg, wondering what life for the Pilgrims was really like, blast back in time to Plimoth Plantation. Follow along as they visit with the Pilgrims and learn about daily life. A Wampanoa
Documentary about Santa Eulalia, a "utopian socialist" colony which thrived until the early 20th century before its abandonment and deterioration.
Documentary directed by Thierry Michel.
In 2060—nearly three decades after humanity established Terra 2.0, a permanent civilization on the Moon—Earth becomes increasingly dependent on the colony’s resources, tensions between the two worlds threaten to ignite a
A silent Colonel Heeza Liar cartoon.
Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A social drama featuring a young Chicano man who moves unevenly between the world of a Eastside Los Angeles gang and his private home