Set during a guerrilla war between British forces and Malayans from 1948-1960. "The Malayan Emergency" was the colonial term for the conflict. The rubber and mining industries had pushed for "emergency" since insurers wouldn't cover their losses if it had been termed a "war".

A 1998 war film, a fictional story of U. S. forces in the Pacific Theater during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II.

The Mau Mau Uprising of 1952-1960, an insurgency by Kenyan peasants against British rule. It failed militarily but set the stage for Kenyan independence in 1963, and motivated Africans in other countries to fight against colonial rule.

In French West Africa, an ineffectual local constable with a cheating wife and laughable job accepts condescension with good humor, then starts to kill. What is most interesting is the interaction between the French and the Africans.

A 1969 Italian film loosely based on Guadeloupe's past. An agent provocateur on the island of "Queimada," a Portuguese colony, organizes an uprising of black slaves so Great Britain can take over the island's sugar cane.