Am I missing something, or are there almost no films about the Dutch East India Company?

[closeupready]

Often thought of as the first big multi-national corporation, I'm not having success at finding anything on IMDB, or even asking this question on Google.

[Archae]

1. I think they were that corrupt company behind Cutler Beckett...

In the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.

[csziggy]

2. There are history videos on YouTube

Just use the company name for the search. But I didn't see any films as in movies, just educational video type things.

[closeupready]

6. From what I gather, they were big slave traders.

Thus, how do you romanticize THAT into a sympathetic protagonist? So yeah, it makes sense, in that light, that there aren't really any films about the DEIC/VOC.

[El Supremo]

3. The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

With Gary Cooper.

[First Speaker]

4. Have you forgotten "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"?...

[eppur_se_muova]

5. You might double-check the name.

"United East Indian Company, referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company..."

(AFI Motion Picture Catalog has nothing but false hits for (British) East India Company.)

[rug]

7. There are no sympathetic heroes in mercantilism.

Box office poison.

[malthaussen]

8. When it was fashionable to make movies about imperialism...

... genocide, and exploitation, the only subjects of interest were America and England. By the time Hollywood got around to realizing that there is more to the world than just English-speaking countries, it was no longer fashionable to make films about imperialism, genocide, and exploitation.

-- Mal

[Recursion]

9. Alatriste, with Viggo Mortinsen

Hard to find, and in Spanish, but worth it.