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Apartheid in South Africa Interviews with Black & Afrikaner Leaders, 1957.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdlD-Q9wmfY
Time: 33:57
A documentary on racism in South Africa. Apartheid is an Afrikaans word for a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa.
Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond. Boston University, 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA
Time: 09:27
Noam Chomsky—arguably the most famous Western intellectual and dissident alive today—interprets former President Bush’s foreign policy actions (such as the Iraq war) in the long history of American Imperialism. He points out how the US was founded as an empire—contrary to popular perception—and has been driven since inception—again, contrary to popular perception—by an “expansion is the path to security” strategy. This lecture was delivered at Boston University in the United States on April 24th, 2008.
Colonialism in 10 Minutes: The Scramble for Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw12KGSj53k
Time: 09:48
An excerpt from the film Uganda Rising showing in a brief overview the utter decimation of Africa that took place via colonialism and the so-called “Scramble for Africa.” Despite the film’s focus on Uganda, this sheds light on just how much of the violence that we see today actually has a colonial/European precedent rooted in exploitation and racism.
Free at Last [documentary on the Atlantic Slave Trade]. BBC, 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6425135.stm
Time: 22:03
Resistance was one way of surviving the sheer brutality of slavery. What were the boundaries of rebellion? And what covert strategies were used? Part one of the series looks at African complicity, the barbaric violence, and the riches at stake.
Imperialism: Crash Course World History.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo
Time 13:45
In which John Green teaches you about European imperialism in the nineteenth century. European powers started to create colonial empires way back in the sixteenth century, but businesses really took off in the nineteenth century, especially in Asia and Africa.
Romila Thapar-India’s Past and Present: How History Informs Contemporary Narrative. IDRC webcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8HhLJzpx3Y
Time: 1:05:37
In conversation with IDRC president David M. Malone, historian Romila Thapar, widely recognized as India’s foremost historian, challenged the colonial interpretations of India’s past, which have created an oversimplified history that has reinforced divisions of race, religion, and caste.
TEDxRotterdam – Frances Gouda: How the colonial past influences the way we see the world today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7CyPpnZ7PU
Time: 19:09
(From the website): In this piece, Frances Gouda examines the place of women in post-colonial history, and she also gives perspective and place to the viewers. She defines the way we perceive our own culture, right here and now. What is our position and what are our values? What exactly do we mean when we want someone to adapt to a culture he or she isn't born into?
The Story of India (Episode 6). PBS-BBC, 2007.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81oG_liAYJ8
Time: 59:01
This episode examines the British Raj and India’s struggle for freedom. Wood reveals how in South India a global corporation came to control much of the subcontinent and explores the magical culture of Lucknow. He traces the Amritsar massacre, the rise of Gandhi and Nehru, and the events that led to the Partition of India in 1947.
Viewpoints on life under apartheid in South Africa. BBC, 1985.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/apartheid/7217.shtml
Time: 40:52
Black South Africans discuss change in their country. The contributors are a domestic servant who lives with a white family and only sees her own children once a month, a teacher, an activist, a businessman, a councillor, and an actor who uses drama to satirize apartheid.
Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? Farish Ahmad-Noor. TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sigx5bMlzJU
Time: 12:18
Historian Farish Ahmad-Noor shows that colonialism remains an inescapable blight on the present, lingering in the toxic, internalized mythologies and stereotypes that have outlived the regimes that created them. Examining why these prejudices and narratives persist (and sometimes thrive), he suggests a multidisciplinary approach to reject cultural obsessions with romanticized history and prevent this nostalgia from perpetuating past oppressions.