A deeper historical narrative, including social and political context, critical counterpoints and explicitly optional films.
Decolonization was neither one event nor a single strategy. Britain’s withdrawal from India, Algeria’s war against France and the dismantling of minority rule in southern Africa had different causes, forms of violence, negotiations and aftermaths.
Independence struggles after World War I challenged imperial administration, with internal disagreements over new constitutions and political settlement.
1920 → 1923
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1920 → 1923
Shows guerrilla resistance and divisions surrounding the Anglo-Irish Treaty through local lives.
Fictional characters and a strongly interpretive drama; should not stand for all Irish political viewpoints.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
Indian decolonization joined mass movements, repression, competing national projects and the violent displacement associated with Partition.
1919 → 1940
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1919 → 1940
Places colonial repression and the 1919 Amritsar massacre at the center of an Indian viewpoint.
Nonlinear biographical dramatization, not a complete history of anti-colonial politics.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1920 → 1929
Offers an optional literary perspective on mistrust, legal inequality and colonial society in 1920s India.
Fictional story about the Raj; illustrates context rather than the independence campaign.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1893 → 30.01.1948
Traces nonviolent mass politics and struggles over independence through a globally influential leader.
Leader-centered and selective; less attention to many other organizations, Muslims and regional movements.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1947
Focuses on the final transfer of British authority and the human impact of Partition in 1947.
Dramatizes elite negotiations and offers one interpretation of the origins of Partition.
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Withdrawal and the negotiation of sovereignty differed by colony and were shaped by local politics and international pressures.
1947 → 1966
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1947 → 1966
Uses the struggle surrounding Seretse Khama and Bechuanaland to show political constraints before Botswana’s independence.
Biographical romance within a wider struggle over sovereignty; compresses events and opposition.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
The Algerian independence war involved guerrilla violence, counterinsurgency, colonial settlers, mass protest and severe repression.
1954 → 1957
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1954 → 1957
Depicts urban insurgency and French counterinsurgency in Algiers with unusual attention to tactics and civilians.
Reenactment based on events and a particular political perspective; it is not archival documentary footage.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
Postcolonial southern Africa also faced entrenched minority rule and apartheid; democracy developed through resistance, negotiations and prolonged conflict.
1975 → 1978
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1975 → 1978
Examines anti-apartheid resistance through Steve Biko and the work of journalist Donald Woods.
Biographical film largely mediated through Woods; apartheid’s broader movement must not be reduced to this relationship.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.
REPRESENTED HISTORY 1918 → 1994
Follows the long struggle against apartheid and the transition to majority-rule democracy in South Africa.
Biographical epic spanning many decades; 1994 is not the end of social and economic legacies.
Season 0 and specials cannot be tracked here.