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Based on real life events, the film takes place during the guerrilla phase of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Three officers ...
In this comedy, introduced by 'The Professor', Hugh Cameron appears as an African explorer and filmmaker, who lectures to an ...
CARTOON. Trigger-happy big game hunter, Flip The Frog, is captured by cannibals. They attempt to cook him in a cauldron. ...
'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African ...
A short story for children about a Basuto-boy herdsman and his adventures in dealing with cattle thieves.
The second reel (of ...
DRAMA. Historical/Documentary. The reconstruction of two sea engagements of the First World War - the Battles of the Coronel of ...
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for ...
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn ...
An army captain wanders, wounded, into a Bedouin tent, and is nursed by the Sheik's daughter, whom he marries.He returns ...
A story of transition within the Gold Coast, as the boy Kumasenu moves from a small fishing village to the ...
India, in 1895.
A Missionary in a remote African district fights plague and prejudice.
Dr Pyke, the headmaster of Portland House Preparatory School, delivers ...
First of Brunel's burlesques. All parts played by Adrian Brunel.
Melodrama in which an independent Indian state revolts and is subdued by British troops.
A gambler plots to sabotage a train carrying a racehorse.
'Doris overhears Lopez plotting with Headway to wreck the train in ...
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war ...
A British regiment stationed in a newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal ...
Story of a police officer in Sierra Leone who has a love affair with a girl during his wife's absence ...
Murder and blackmail in an African outpost.
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. A Zulu crouches on all fours and ...
A young African leaves his village in Swaziland and seeks fame and fortune in Johannesburg.
Deals with the mission of an engineer who has to build a railway in the African jungles aftet two of ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is ...
Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot ...