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Gibraltar remains a British Overseas Territory.
Documentary showing life in the Women's Royal Naval Service, described by Wrens in their own words.
The demands and ...
The variety and responsibility of life in the WRAF.
Airwomen of the WRAF are introduced at an Operation Flight ...
The training and work of the Royal Naval Air Service.
Over shots of a dinghy sailing race among moored ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AFTER THE BATTLE OF MATAPAN BY CONVOY TO GIBRALTAR BATTLE FOR ...
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: GIBRALTAR DEFENCES HIS MAJESTY SEES PARATROOPERS SINKING OF 'BISMARK' NEW FIGHT FIGHTER OUR ...
(Reel 1) Hurricane Mk Is of 111 Squadron at Northolt, 1939-1940. Fighter pilots practise air to air wireless communication by ...
Naval publicity and recruitment film.
The hero, Terry Gardner, is discontented with his job on a building site, where ...
Story of how two youngsters round up crooks to blow up British fleet off Gibraltar.
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed in slow motion during a practice gunnery shoot off Scapa Flow, possibly 16 June 1943: a ...
A look at the report produced by Lord Windlesham and Richard Rampton QC on the programme THIS WEEK[28/04/88] about the ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. Scenes in Gibraltar.
Main title and credit (1). Pan right from sea of the town of Gibraltar (33). Street ...
A report on the dispute between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar.
Domestic family scenes (home and seaside) in the U.K. in the 1930s. London traffic in late 1930s. Ship ocean voyage. ...
Short film about the old gun emplacements in Gibraltar and their modern counterparts.
Narrator tells story of Gibraltar having ...
Gibraltar. Harbour. Town and street life. Aircraft carrier at anchor with fly past of Gloucester Gladiator fighters. Family holiday in ...
Voyage home to England with fancy dress parade on board. Port Sudan. Passage through Red Sea with stop to see ...
Quiet enclosure at Indian Race meeting.
Toll Bar on main road n the Indian countryside near Panvel.
Small Indian boy with his ...
(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at ...
Commander Kearans receives gifts from the Governor.
I. Various shots on board HMS Rodney. "Deammunitioning ship" Cordite being hauled up from the magazines and transferred to lighters. ...
A reel subtitled "Places visited and people met" showing off-duty activities around the world - an elaborate picnic in Algiers, ...
Layard family leave in Europe. Scotland Family with relatives & details of pre-war country life. Gibraltar from the sea. Deck ...
Boat journey to UK via Suez, Naples, Gibraltar. Shipboard life. Stop in Naples.
The rle of medical staff in the Royal Navy.
The various kinds of medical staff in the Navy are ...
Development programmes in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika illustrate that "even in the midst of war, Great Britain does ...
REEL 1 - Views in Alexandria Harbour show battleships HMS Malaya and HMS Warspite, cruiser and French three-funnel troopship; Short ...
START 00:00:00 04:09 Title card 'Trincomalee Harbour. Royalist "Ameer" "Hunter"'. A voyage around the anchorage in the Bay of Trincomalee, ...
End of Kosovo Crisis - what now happens to the refugees? studio intv Lyndall Sachs (UNHCR) and intv with Jamie ...
DOCUMENTARY. The Rhodesia Conference at Gibraltar.
HMS Fearless and HMS Kent. Harold Wilson and Ian Smith meet on HMS Fearless. They ...
Reel 1: (Can marked "Jan 1936, Easter 1936. Boxall, Nelson etc at Gibraltar). Family scenes. HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed on 28 February 1941 on a cold and wet day in Scapa Flow as a large ...
(Reel 1) Map of Palestine with oil pipe line from Iraq to Haifa marked. "September Crisis 1938": HMS Malaya sails ...
An engineer dreams of a fictitious conference of the `Mediterranean Economy Union' called to discuss plans for damming the Mediterranean ...
Life in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Training at Reading (careers office flashback), receiving uniform. "You are a WREN... ...
START 00:00:00 Black and white footage showing an Admiralty survey map of Gibraltar dated 1921 and views of the 'Rock' ...
START 10:00:00 Opening titles
10:00:18 Scenes on the quayside at Tilbury Docks as soldiers from various regiments and corps in the ...
Colonial troops in England for the Victory Parade on 8 June 1946.
Colonial troops arrive in Britain for the Victory Parade. ...
Sixth film in a series showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This ...
Men of the Yorkshire Regiment being interviewed on various locations in Gibraltar.
The men discuss how they came to ...