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A famous murder case among Kenya's British colonial society in the 1940s.
Based on real life events, the film takes place during the guerrilla phase of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Three officers ...
Sir Henry Curtis, Allan Quatermain and Captain Goode set of to explore the unexplored regions of darkest Africa. Many dangers ...
India, in 1895.
A British regiment stationed in a newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal ...
Sammy, aged ten, is orphaned in an air raid at Port Said during Suez. He sets out alone with a ...
Deals with the mission of an engineer who has to build a railway in the African jungles aftet two of ...
Set in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of ...
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for ...
An army captain wanders, wounded, into a Bedouin tent, and is nursed by the Sheik's daughter, whom he marries.He returns ...
Comedy. Mr. Mensah entrusts the building of his house to his irresponsible nephew, who wastes all the money and materials. ...
Story of Arab traders' seduction of Galana tribesmen from their peaceful ways and the efforts of a game warden to ...
Story of a police officer in Sierra Leone who has a love affair with a girl during his wife's absence ...
Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot ...
Dramatisation of the Bakiga people's attempt to cultivate the Kigezi district of Uganda, and their encounter with the Pygmies.
The camera ...
A story of transition within the Gold Coast, as the boy Kumasenu moves from a small fishing village to the ...
Story of terrifying adventures of rubber planter and his wife in Malaya whose estate is attacked by bandits.
Mulenga is hired to do odd jobs in the grounds of a big house. However, another employee deviously tries to ...
A fictional children's film recalling the journey of trekkers in 1892 from the Transvaal to the Mashomba Valley in Mashonaland. ...
Story of the efforts of a Game Warden in East Africa to preserve wild animals in his territory.
'"How better ways of feeding children came to an African village".
A Story told in the traditional idiom of an African ...
The orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is ...
In 1897 Africa, a famous guide agrees to help a woman and her brother search for her husband in unknown ...
A young African leaves his village in Swaziland and seeks fame and fortune in Johannesburg.
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 ...