Dragonard

Dragonard 1987

4.70

In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage whippings.

1987

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1959

6.30

Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.

1959

The Rabbit Hunt

The Rabbit Hunt 2017

6.70

Every weekend, seventeen year old Chris and his family hunt rabbits during sugarcane field burning and harvesting in the Florida Everglades.

2017

Land Rush

Land Rush 2012

6.00

A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a large-scale sugar cane plantation. Land Rush documents the hopes, fears, wishes, and demands of small-scale subsistence farmers in the region who look to benefit, or lose out, from the deal.

2012

Cane Sugar

Cane Sugar 1939

1

US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.

1939

Queen Sugar

Queen Sugar 2016

7.80

Two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.

2016

The Long Song

The Long Song 2018

7.00

Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.

2018