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This Digital Educational Collection is available for $495 (regular institutional price $745). If your institution is experiencing exceptional budget limitations, please contact info@africanfilm.com to discuss additional pricing options.
Rebellion and Identity in the Caribbean
Designed to support teaching in Caribbean Studies, Africana Studies, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Film and Media Studies, and related disciplines, this three-film collection offers a focused entry point into the history of rebellion and identity formation in the Caribbean. Through historical narrative, political thought, and cultural memory, it examines how anti-colonial struggles have shaped resistance, consciousness, and self-definition across the region.
The collection includes:
• Catch a Fire
• Maluala
• Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Catch a Fire revisits the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica through the life of Paul Bogle, grounding the collection in one of the Caribbean's most significant uprisings against colonial rule.
Maluala, directed by Sergio Giral—one of the most important Afro-Cuban filmmakers—takes place in nineteenth-century Cuba within a palenque, a maroon settlement formed by formerly enslaved Africans who escaped into the mountains. As Spanish colonial forces attempt to divide its leaders, the film traces the tension between survival, unity, and rebellion, reflecting the broader struggle of cimarrones fighting for land, autonomy, and freedom.
Walter Rodney: What They Don't Want You to Know centers on the Guyanese historian and activist, whose work on colonialism, underdevelopment, and Black liberation continues to shape political thought today.
Together, these films provide a clear and accessible framework for understanding how histories of resistance were formed—and how they continue to inform contemporary questions of power, identity, and belonging. Ideal for classroom use, the collection supports discussion on colonial legacies, political movements, and the role of culture in shaping historical understanding.
Purchase includes perpetual institutional streaming access with Public Performance Rights (PPR) to all three films.
