Märksõna Colonisation

Põlisameeriklanna Pocahontas on pealik Powhatani meelekindel tütar, kes armub inglismaalt pärit laevakaptenisse John Smithi, kes seilas Uude Maailma end tõestama. Pealik Powhatan ei kiida nende armastust heaks ja soovib, et tema tütar abielluks hoopiski hõimu kõige võimsama sõdalasega. Asjalugu ei muuda lihtsamaks see, et inglased, eeskätt kuberner Ratcliffe’iga, kelle heaks John töötab, tahavad põlisameeriklastelt nende kulda ja väärisasju röövida. Pocahontas peab seisma samaaegselt nii oma armastatu kui ka oma rahva eest.

Aastal 1755 asub vaesunud kapten Ludvig Kahlen vallutama karmi ja asustamata Taani nõmme-ala näiliselt võimatul eesmärgil – ehitada koloonia kuninga nimel. Vastutasuks saab ta endale väga soovitud kuningliku nime. Kuid selle piirkonna ainuvalitseja, halastamatu Frederik de Schinkel, usub, et see maa kuulub talle. Kui de Schinkel saab teada, et teenija Ann Barbara ja tema teenistujast abikaasa on põgenenud varjupaika Kahleni juurde, vannub privileegidele pretendeeriv ja pahatahtlik valitseja kättemaksu ning teeb kõik endast oleneva, et kapten sealt minema ajada. Kahlen ei lase end hirmutada ja võtab vastu ebavõrdse võitluse – riskides mitte ainult oma eluga, vaid ka ümberkaudsete võõraste peredega.

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.

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

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...