A principios del siglo XX Karen Blixen (Streep), una mujer europea de gran coraje, llega a Kenia para dirigir una plantación de café junto a su marido (Brandauer), un mujeriego incorregible con el que no se ha casado por amor. Para su sorpresa, Karen se da cuenta de que poco a poco se está enamorando de la tierra, de sus gentes... y de Denys Finch-Hatton (Redford), un enigmático cazador aventurero.

Cuando es nombrado gobernador de Jamaica en 1674, el famoso pirata sir Henry Morgan pide ayuda a sus antiguos compañeros para limpiar de piratas el mar Caribe. Un clásico del cine de aventuras.

El capitán Nolan, procedente de la India, se incorpora al regimiento de Lord Cardigan. Considerado un oficial de inferior categoría por sus compañeros, Nolan mantendrá continuos enfrentamientos con Lord Cardigan a causa de su despótica actitud. En la guerra de Crimea (1854-1856), en pleno asedio de Sebastopol, tendrá lugar una terrible batalla. (FILMAFFINITY)

Durante la ocupación inglesa de la India, los habitantes de una pequeña aldea se resisten a pagar el impuesto que los oficiales británicos han doblado. Ante las protestas deciden resolver el conflicto jugando un partido de cricket: si ganan los campesinos, se les exonerará de las tasas.

Anne está buscando información sobre Olivia, la hermana de su abuela. En los años 20, Olivia se había ido a la India para buscar a su marido, que trabajaba allí como funcionario del gobierno británico. Anne dispone de las cartas que envió Olivia y, además, del testimonio de un gran amigo.

Adaptación cinematográfica del best seller de James Clavell. Ambientada a mitad del siglo XIX en plena colonización británica de la China, Tai Pan es un noble inglés especialista en el comercio del opio que intentará introducir sus mercancías utilizando el puerto franco de Hong Kong.

África, 1923. Un joven de color, al que todos llaman mister Johnson, está inmerso en la sociedad de Nigeria, colonia del imperio británico. Su elevado nivel de educación y su interés por integrarse en la sociedad blanca le traerán más de un problema. (FILMAFFINITY)

Harry es un joven oficial del ejército del imperio británico que es llamado, junto con su regimiento, a combatir contra los rebeldes en Egipto.

Cuando, unos días antes de embarcar, decide abandonar, sus tres compañeros y su prometida le envian cuatro plumas blancas, que significa que para ellos es un cobarde.

A partir de ese momento, Harry arriesgará su vida para devolver las cuatro plumas y recobrar su honor.

The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Written by Greg Bruno

Un policía colonial británico en África investiga un asesinato en un hospital río arriba.

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the mutiny of 1857. From Queen Elizabeth to Queen Victoria, two-and- a half-centuries of East India Company rule will be reversed by its attempt to crush India’s Warrior Queen. Lakshmibai is known as one of the most prominent figures within the independence movement of India. The passion to free her province from colonial rule led this young woman to become one of the greatest generals of the Indian army, and to go down in history for her bravery, strategic acumen, and as a force to reckon with by the East India Company and the British Raj. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi is the story of the woman who lived and fought for the freedom of her people.

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.

A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. The bitter struggle between Arab and Jew for control of the Holy Land has caused untold suffering in the Middle East for generations. It is often claimed that the crisis originated with Jewish emigration to Palestine and the foundation of the state of Israel. Yet the roots of the conflict are to be found much earlier – in British double-dealing during the First World War. This is a story of intrigue among rival empires; of misguided strategies; and of how conflicting promises to Arab and Jew created a legacy of bloodshed which determined the fate of the Middle East.

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.