History in film

How we were made slaves and why we are still not free This is an interesting lecture that manages to span over 10,000 years of our history in under an hour. It looks at the people who lived on the island of Jamaica prior to Christopher Columbus’ so called discovery. It speaks about the transatlantic …

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was the princess, born into the Egbado royal family of south-western Nigeria, who became a favourite of Queen Victoria and a regular visitor to Windsor Castle. Sarah was captured in 1848 during a slave-hunt war by the infamous King Ghezo of Dahomey when she was just eight years old. Her tribe was …

Slavery is alive, thriving and bigger than ever. This documentary looks at child slavery in Haiti. Child slavery escalated six months after a devastating earthquake demolished the Haitian capital and left a generation of orphans.

Africa Rising examines how the West’s policy has affected Africa. From Clover films and film maker Jamie Doran, comes a documentary examining the failure of western policies towards Africa and rethinking the role of western aid workers on the continent. Narrated by Tilda Swinton, Africa Rising takes a look at the benefits of ‘Self Help’ …

The Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations. Traveling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and on foot, the renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., takes us to twelve countries in search of Africa’s magnificent past, the now …

Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally – Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom-Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic …

There are some who believe that Africa is the birth place of us all and many who don’t. But where did we come from? Regardless of your beliefs this documentary is compelling providing genetic evidence of humanity’s connection. In this documentary Spencer Wells, a 33 year old population geneticist, has closed the door on his …

Many people believe they know why slavery was ended  but what really ended slavery? Was it really some altruistic notion that blacks were indeed human? Paul Gilroy and Weyman Bennet ask and answer the question in this debate. Weymann Bennet

This video details the “Remembering the New Cross Fire” Celebration gathering on the 14 January 2010, at the Albany Theatre in Deptford. On Sunday 18 January 1981 a fire broke out in a house in New Cross South East London killing 13 young people. Another teenager committed suicide shortly after, having been traumatised by the …