About the Colonial Film Catalogue | Search Film By Country | Search film by topics
Archives | Project Team | Work in progress | Project events | FAQ
British troops of No. 5 Army Commando round up Japanese troops at Fanling, 20 miles from Kowloon, before ...
At an East African Reinforcement Camp an entertainment unit stages a show for troops of 11th East African ...
Men of No. 6 Air Formation Signals RAF seen at work laying and repairing telephone lines at Mingaladon ...
The lifestyle of the jungle nomads of the Malay Peninsular rainforest. Life with a nomadic tribe in Malaya, as seen ...
Set in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of ...
Travelgoue. Scenes in Peshawar, the village of Kabla, the Khyber Pass and Lundi Kotal.
Map of the world, CU of the ...
Group of American paratroopers are dropped 180 miles behind Japanese lines. Group splits into two. One group is killed and ...
Following the withdrawal of Japanese forces, troops of 29th Brigade (36th Division) occupy the town of Indaw, Burma.
Wrecked ...
Shot on 16 September 1945: three Japanese representatives of the Ipoh garrison pass camera. Interior footage; the Japanese officers meet ...
British troops of 5th Parachute Brigade round up the Japanese garrison of Singkep Island, off Sumatra south of ...
Main Title. "THE IRREPRESSIBLE MR LEVINE, AMERICA'S MILLIONAIRE AMATEUR AIRMAN 'TAKES OFF' FROM CRANWELL WITH BRITISH PILOT - CAPT HINCHCLIFFE". ...
First section of a floating dock leaves Newcastle for Singapore (44ft).
Construction of a harbour capable of berthing 32.000 tons tankers to serve the B .P. oil refinery at Little Aden. ...
The beginnings of oil exploration in Kuwait. The opening of the first pipeline. General scenes in Kuwait.
Credits (38). Map shows ...
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
A fishing trip by canoe on the River ...
START 00:00:00 04:09 Title card 'Trincomalee Harbour. Royalist "Ameer" "Hunter"'. A voyage around the anchorage in the Bay of Trincomalee, ...
British troops of 4th Indian Infantry Brigade proceed from Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island, Burma up the Thanzit River.
Indian ...
A ruined planter makes good in Australia and returns in time to save his fiancée from a nunnery.
A London schoolboy dreams he visits Buckingham Palace, where he makes the King's Christmas pudding from ingredients collected from different ...
The first trials of Japanese war criminals at Singapore get underway.
General view of the courtroom with the accused ...
Variety of scenes of an advance by 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division, near Mount Popa (approximately 40 miles ...
At Toungoo, Burma, Douglas Dakota transport aircraft of RAF 62 Squadron are loaded with sacks of rice for ...
After nationalist disturbances close the roads to Saigon, capital of French Indo-China, a convoy named 'Operation Saltmeat' is ...
Troops of 25th Indian Division make an amphibious landing on the coast of Malaya at Morib as part ...