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Through films and documentaries about places with contentious histories and ongoing political conflicts, this course will examine the solidarities and fractures that resistance against colonial and foreign control brings about in struggling societies. The course will particularly explore the anticolonial struggles of Palestinians, Algerians, Irish, Kurds, Kashmiris, Tamils, and Indigenous Americans, among others, and in doing so engage with themes of sovereignty and self-determination, nationality and belonging, and history and memory. Such inquiries not only have real-world stakes for peoples' survival and political identities, but also shape in profound ways the imaginations and practices of resistance and solidarity across the globe.