Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2004)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー, 履歴
上映時間 : 1時間 24分
演出 : Peter Bate
シノプシス
This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.
19世紀のアフリカで実際に起きた事件をもとにした動物パニック映画。“ゴースト”と“ダークネス”と呼ばれた、2頭の人食いライオンにマイケル・ダグラス扮する凄腕のハンターが挑む。
ヨーロッパ人による植民地戦争が激化する18世紀半ばの建国直前の新大陸アメリカを舞台に、インディアンに育てられた白人青年の愛と友情を描く。ジェイムズ・G.ロビンソンの小説をマイケル・マン監督が映像化した感動作。
Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
シリーズ第3弾。北京では、時の権力者・西太后が“獅子王争覇”と呼ばれる大武術大会を開催しようとしていた。試合を前に殺気だつ各流派の武闘家たち。武術の本分を説き、平和的に試合を行わせようとする黄飛鴻だが、外国政府による西太后の側近・李鴻章の暗殺計画が進行していることを知り、自身も大会に参加することを決意する。
1607年、北アメリカに流れ着いたイギリス船。彼らは〝新大陸〟を開拓しようと砦を造り始めるが、この地にはすでに、ネイティヴ・アメリカンたちが暮らしていた。ネイティヴとの交渉役を命じられたジョン・スミスは、王・ポウハタンに捕らえられ、王の美しい末娘、ポカホンタスに命を救われる。恋におち、急速に愛を深めてゆくスミスとポカホンタスだったが・・・。
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.
アマゾンのジャングルで孤独に生きている先住民族の生き残りのシャーマンが、現在と数十年前、二度にわたって白人学者と旅した記憶を振り返っていく。シーロ・ゲーラ監督による幻想的なロードムービー。
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
The true story of Saartjes Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protée — a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty — and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.
In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal (Laura Gemser), the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his neglected wife Alessandra (Lili Carati) has formed a relationship with Elio’s otherwise frigid secretary Velma (Annie Belle) who is less than pleased at Elio’s return
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.