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TV play telling the inside story of how the Thatcher government went to war to regain the Falkland Islands.
In 1987, the BBC commissioned a play to mark the fifth anniversary of the Falklands War. The play was never ...
Documentary in which people involved in the Falklands War, which began five years ago, discuss their views of it, from ...
Rushes to be inserted into series. Pipers playing lament as a container with war dead is taken off ship.
A report on how the growing conflict in the Falklands is affecting people in Britain. Peter Gill reports from the ...
Report on the developments in the crisis involving the Falkland Islands with rep orts from Buenos Aires on the effects ...
The Falklands crisis: report from Argentina on the hardening ofattitudes, and on the latest moves at the United Nations
A specially extended edition of TV EYE on the Falklands, at the end of week six of the crisis. First, ...
The development of the Falkland Islands dependencies under British administration; the lives of the men stationed there.
Special report on the Falklands Crisis with opinions from Argentinian and British citizens linked by sattelite and ground links from ...
Film of the Falls Patrol in British Guiana.
Footage of the patrol and one of the soldiers talking about ...
The care and management of dairy herds in Jamaica in order to maximise milk yields.
Over agricultural shots, a Jamaican voiceover ...
A gambler plots to sabotage a train carrying a racehorse.
'Doris overhears Lopez plotting with Headway to wreck the train in ...
Report on the complexities of the fishing dispute following the Government's imposition of an exlusion zone around the Falkland Islands. ...
Report from Grenada on Eric Gairy's recently installed Premiership and those who oppose his leadership.
Melodrama dealing with racism. Centres on domestic difficulties which develop in a working class family when their daughter falls in ...
DOCUMENTARY. The first journey of the commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition to set up a base camp on the Weddell Sea.
RL.1 NOV. ...
A report from the Falkland Islands on the real impact of the recent war on the islanders, now hosts to ...
An industrial process film for Tate and Lyle, showing the growth and processing of sugar cane, from the fields of ...
'A Party of Trinidad men who have come from the West Indies, being inspected by the Lord Mayor, at the ...
Documentary on banana growing in Jamaica, filmed during Frank Bundy's trip to the West Indies. The film shows bananas cultivated, ...
Production materials for an ITV 'Weekend World' on the Falkland Islands.
Report on the way in which the future of the Falklands is to be negotiated with Argentina in the light ...
Report on what may happen after the Falkland dispute is over and the Islands have once again to be administered. ...
I. "Three Phases of the World At War": Scenes of the Philippine Islands include damage on Luzon.
II. "Defence of the ...
An account of the slave trade in the West Indies, and the islands' development since emancipation.
Copeland Grant, seated in a ...
A survey of Trinidad, its street architecture, arts and crafts and its native population.
INSTRUCTIONAL. The cultivation of grapefruit in the British Honduras.
Titles (17). Woman eating grapefruit (21). Men planting out sour orange seedlings ...
The 500th edition of the programme features stories from tax havens around the world. William Davis is in the Cayman ...
Main title. Men and uniformed firemen in open area directing a hose, man waving onlookers back. Doorway of a corrugated ...
The people of Grenada - their everyday work and life, their occupations, what they grow and their native customs. Intended ...
Castries, St Lucia; Georgetown, Grenada; Windward Islands
Jamaican dockside worker suspected of killing spiv compatriot, hides from the police in panic but is befriended by paper-boy and ...
West Indians serving in Britain during World War II talk about their work in the armed forces and in civilian ...
(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at ...
(Reel 1) Scenes in Bermuda, HMS Cumberland and HMS Exeter in harbour, ashore in Jamaica.
(Reel 2) Goodwill voyage round South ...
Part One. (B&W) "Atlantic crossing": HMS Dragon running swiftly in choppy seas. "Drills at Bermuda": an awning is rigged over ...
A reel subtitled "Places visited and people met" showing off-duty activities around the world - an elaborate picnic in Algiers, ...
Castries, St. Lucia? On board ship. Crossing the line. Brazil: Rio. Jungle waterfalls. Men killing snakes.
Society events. Golf tournament. Hotel life.
On Board ship in rough seas (Atlantic crossing?). West Indies: location unclear. City scenes. Fishing. Sugar cane producer. Golf.
Aspects of nature and industrial life on Honduras.
Opening with scenes from Swan Island, the film shows two Europeans offloading supplies ...
When the daughter of a trade union organiser announces her relationship with a black man, the revelation exposes deep prejudice ...
Presenter Nick Baker goes to the Falkland Islands to try and discover why its population of penguins has been steadily ...
Report on the latest developments in the South Atlantic crisis with an interview with John Nott, Secretary of State for ...