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In 1947, British India was dissolved into two independent states, India and Pakistan.
An outline of the history of the State of Kotah, including extracts from vintage 16mm films of the late Maharao ...
William Savage, a collector for the British East India Company is drawn into the Thug cult (a group which strangles ...
A parable about the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
Epic drama set in Chandrapore in the 1920s, about the relationships between a group of English people and a Muslim ...
About the experiences of two young English women in India, two generations apart, in the 1920s and 1980s. Anne, a ...
Biopic of famed Indian lawyer and activist Mahatma Gandhi, whose methods of non-violent protest against the British Empire led to ...
TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the ...
Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.
A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly ...
1880's: Tale of two tough British sergeants, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, who journey from India through Afghanistan to the ...
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
India, in 1895.
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's ...
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, ...
The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.
Set in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of ...
India 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves ...
Seeta is captured and Berger is reported dead after a cliff fall. Berger's sister and her husband are suspicious and ...
Architect Herald Berger is commissioned as advisor to Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur. He becomes involved with Seeta, an Indian ...
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for ...
Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot ...
Episodes in the lives of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. Filmed in India, from a ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is ...
Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.
Bullock ...
Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: DAY AND NIGHT STRUGGLE TO CLOSE FEN GAP FAREWELL TO THE ...
For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA DRAWS TEST WITH ENGLAND INDIA ACCEPTS THE PLAN KING ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include KENYA TATTOO PANDIT NEHRU AT SRINAGAR BRADMAN'S RECORD AT SYDNEY MATCH OUR ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include HYDERABAD TODAY NEWS IN BRIEF FRIENDSHIP CARGO LEAVES AMERICA BELGIAN CROSS COUNTRY ...
The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.
On the eve of independence, Jinnah ...
Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram ...
Amateur film showing Muslim refugees arriving in Pakistan from India and at Lahore station.
Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.
Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. ...
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
A fishing trip by canoe on the River ...
Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary ...
Short documentary about Bassein, a fishing village 25 miles north of Bombay on the shores of the Arabian ...
In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA Items include:
OPENING THE MONTGOMERY BRIDGE H.M.S. FLYCATCHER PRINCESS ELIZABETH WITH W.L.A. U.N.O. FACES ...
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NO RETURN TO SIXPENCE IN THE POUND NEWS IN FLASHES ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH ...
F.A. CUP FINAL SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY INDIAN MISSION VISIT TAJ MAHAL EMPIRE RULERS HERE ...
8,000 RANGERS COME TO TOWN INDIA PLAN ANNOUNCED MORE V-DAY ARRIVALS FRANCE BEAT ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: WELSH NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH ADMITTED AS BARD FESTIVAL IN INDIA ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: JERUSALEM TAX OFFICE BLOWN UP INDIA. KHYBER WARRIORS HAIL VICEROY ARRIVAL OF ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ENGLAND ROUT DUTCH SOCCER XI MR. ATTLEE OPENS FIRST POST-WAR LONDON FLATS ...
The friends of a murdered man go out into the hotels and bazaars of Calcutta to find the murderer.