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A short story for children about a Basuto-boy herdsman and his adventures in dealing with cattle thieves.
The second reel (of ...
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn ...
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them ...
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war ...
Melodrama in which an independent Indian state revolts and is subdued by British troops.
Farce about a professor who is forced to collect taxes and administer while the commissioner is on leave and his ...
Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.
Adventure melodrama of the search for legendary diamond mines in the heart of Africa.
A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip ...
Biography of the politician and how he rises from being a diamond-miner in Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape ...
A Missionary in a remote African district fights plague and prejudice.
Dr Pyke, the headmaster of Portland House Preparatory School, delivers ...
Story of the work of Commissioner Sanders, the King's representative among the tribes of British West Africa. [Features Chiefs and ...
CARTOON. Trigger-happy big game hunter, Flip The Frog, is captured by cannibals. They attempt to cook him in a cauldron. ...
In this comedy, introduced by 'The Professor', Hugh Cameron appears as an African explorer and filmmaker, who lectures to an ...
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his ...
DRAMA. Historical/Documentary. The reconstruction of two sea engagements of the First World War - the Battles of the Coronel of ...
Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British ...
Story of Prince Gautama and how he became Lord Buddha, the Enlightened One.
A drama of tribal life in Central Africa.
'Nionga, a chieftain's daughter, is induced by a vindictive witch-doctor to persuade her ...
First of Brunel's burlesques. All parts played by Adrian Brunel.
DRAMA. English governess in South Africa is rescued from enforced marriage to a lecherous Malay by the efforts of two ...
A gambler plots to sabotage a train carrying a racehorse.
'Doris overhears Lopez plotting with Headway to wreck the train in ...
Shows the course of events leading up to the relief of Lucknow.
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. A Zulu crouches on all fours and ...