Queimada / Burn!

Marlon Brando and Evaristo Marquez in Queimada (1969)

For some reason there are not many films about Caribbean slave revolts against European colonialism, but by far the best I have ever seen is this anti-imperialist classic starring Marlon Brando and directed by the late great Gillo Pontecorvo. It also has a terrific score by Ennio Morricone. As one film buff notes, the film demonstrates

Pontecorvo's blending of cinematic romanticism with an analysis of black revolutionary struggle which is part Marx and part Franz Fanon. Unlike The Battle of Algiers, which made use of a cinema vérité style to tell the story of an actual liberation struggle, Burn! is a political allegory, styled like a costume action-adventure picture. The setting is a fictional sugar cane-producing Caribbean Island named Queimada...