Rhodesia Collection: Rhodesia Unafraid 1978

This film is held by the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum (ID: 2000/190/048).

Synopsis

A Rhodesian Corps of Chaplains film on the nature of the communist backed terrorist war. Contains very unpleasant footage of terrorist atrocities. Begins with burning hut and caption: 'A Military Operations Area in Rhodesia 1978'. Shots of burning village and crouching soldier/terrorist(?) in foreground. Shot of radio control room. Close up of helicopter rota. Title: Rhodesia Unafraid. Helicopters taking off and moving over hilly bush country, to land by burning huts. Troops exit helicopter, which takes off. Soldiers scout round burning huts and surrounding area. Lt Col The Rev Norman Wood, talking about fighting against international communism - asserts that it is not a black/white confrontation. Col The Rev Robert Slimp, US Army (Rtd), talking about the joint fight of blacks and whites against communism. Robin Moore, Author - asserting that it is not a racial war, taht blacks are most in fear of communism: it is war of ideologies. A 'captured terrorist commander' talking about the ideological training/brainwashing he was given. Film continues with various excerpts from the previous speakers interspersed with newspaper articles and photographs as follows: Norman Wood... Robert Slimp...newspaper story about baby Natasha being bayoneted to death by marxist terrorists... Robin Moore... b&w still of massacred villagers...extract from Rhodesian Herald "Terrorists murder 16"...Robin Moore and more newspaper cuttings... b&w stills of massacres... b&w still shots of live mutilated people...more newspaper shots... Norman Wood saying Africans have suffered most but they are coming forward to join army... various shots of Africans saying why they want to join army: "to avenge my brother... to save my country..." Maj Gen A.N.O. MacIntyre, Chief of Staff (Admin). White Rhodesian soldier about why he is fighting, black Rhodesian soldier. Robin Wood... captured terrorist ... headline "Missionaries massacred"... various shots of mission village and voice-over telling of massacre. Father Myerscough, Musami Mission; Robin Moore. More newspaper articles about mission massacres. Sister Ermenfried, Regina Mundi Mission, speaking from hospital bed about her experiences. 'Captured terrorist' is asked whether he would kill a black priest. Answer is yes. More s soldiers scouting area. Shots of guns of soldiers/terrorists(?) in hiding. Sounds of gun fire and soldiers scatter and run. Shots of fighting. Various shots of dead communists(?). Shots of helicopter landing and wounded soldier taken to ambulance. Cemetery. Grave of African "Constable Albert Kabunu, killed in action 9.7.1977". Sequence of other graves. Woman and small children walking in cemetery and putting flowers on grave. Ticker tape parade of black and white troops marching through city. End credits: A Friends of the Chaplains Corps Presentation.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains a number of films purchased from the collection of Henry Berriff, a cameraman in the Central African Film Unit. The collection contains amateur and professionally produced titles. The Rhodesian Heritage Film Archive, of which this item forms a part, was aquired by Rhodesians Worldwide from the Anglo-Rhodesian Society, following the dissolution of the Society in 1980.

 

Titles

  • Rhodesia Collection: Rhodesia Unafraid 1978 (Archive)
Series Title:
Rhodesia Collection
 

Technical Data

Year:
1978
Running Time:
19 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm VHS BetaSP
Sound:
Sound
 

Production Credits

 

Groups

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Archive Work Groups

Groups

This film belongs to the following groups.

Rhodesia Collection

 

 

Rhodesia Collection: Victoria Falls 'The Smoke that... (1955)

Film about the Victoria Falls on the borders of Northern and Southern Rhodesia.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Kariba Dam 1954 (1954)

Film about the building of the Kariba Dam and its effect on the lives of the local people.

Production / Donor ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Rhodesian S.A.S. Selection Test:...

Film showing the selection process for Rhodesian S.A.S. also showing the three men chosen.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: African Chiefs

Silent film of 'African chiefs'

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Valley Batonka of Lake Kariba... (1963)

Documents the moving of people from the Batonka valley on the Zambesi River because of the plans to build the ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: "Apis Mellifera Adansonii - The... (1950)

Documenting the African bee, native traditional bee keepers and the bee-keeping industry in Africa.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: 'Holiday Highlights 1959' (1959)

Tour of Nyasaland, Europe, U.K. and arrival back in Cape Town.

'Holiday Highlights. Nyasaland - Rome - Switzerland - Austria - ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Christmas Spotlight 1963 (1960)

Film about Christmas in Rhodesia.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Christmas Spotlight 1961 (1961)

Christmas in Northern Rhodesia 1961. Black & white newsreel

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: 'See-saw Years' 1964 (1964)

Dramatised history of Rhodesian tobacco growers from 1927-1963. The film opens with footage of a cricket match at the Umvukwes ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: 'African Chiefs Tour of Britain... (1965)

A film made expressly to show African Rhodesians that their 'chiefs' had gone to England. Two such visits were made, ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Five Years On 1965-1970 (1970)

Compilation of newsreel footage for the period 1965 to 1970(?) covering the political negotiations between Ian Smith and the Government ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: 'Salisbury Show'

Two Africans display their produce at the Salisbury Show and there is a tour of the show. N.B: Soundtrack is ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: 'Rhodesian Roundup' 1971 (1971)

Colour newsreel dated 1971

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains a ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Film of Nyasaland and the Northern... (1953)

Film of Nyasaland and the Northern Rhodesian Federation (No. 44).

Contents: The Royal Tour: Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, 30th ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: This is Rhodesia Reel no. 23 (1960)

Advancement in Rhodesia'. Contents include: reasons for independence; increases in numbers of Africans in authority; improvements in condition of tribal ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Bulawayo Stop-Over 1972 (1972)

Tourist film of Bulawayo?

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains a ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Something About Rhodesia: I 1975 (1975)

A magazine programme. Items are: Umvukwes Art Group; Maize and Tobacco - 'A Tale of Two Crops'; 'School for Sailing' ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Rhodesian Roundup 1972 (1972)

A summary of the year's events. Lake Kariba hydrofoil .Jumbo jet start flights. Wanki Colliery Disaster Rhodesian Olympic Team. International ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Fifty Years: the Story of Rhodesia's... (1973)

Development of Rhodesia's parliamentary system from early pioneering days.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: What A Time 1978 (1978)

Film on Rhodesia's history and the reasons for UDI and the Internal Settlement. Contains war footage. many stills of early ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Top Gear 1974 (1974)

A Motoring holiday in Rhodesia.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Historic Rhodesia (1970)

Traces Rhodesia's origins from pre-historic times to the present. 1970?

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Suddenly A City (1960)

Film about the development of Salisbury.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: So Far and No Further 1970 (1970)

Film commisioned by the Anglo-Rhodesian Society. A good background to UDI. Contains an interview with Ian Smith.

Production / Donor Details: ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: U.D.I. Plus 90 Days (1966)

Interview with Ian Smith.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains a ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Bateleur Eagles 1966 (1966)

A "Hands-off Rhodesia!" film showing Rhodesia's preparedness to resist a British military intervention aimed at overthrowing U.D.I.

Production / Donor Details: ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Chipangali (1975)

Film of Viv and Paddy Wilson's(?) Chipingali wild animal sanctuary near Bulawayo. 1975?

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: For Man and Beast (1975)

Film about Mubi, an African Game Guard, and his white rhinos in the Matopos National Park near Bulawayo. 1975?

Production / ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Wild in the Sun 1974/5 (1975)

Film about Aloes and the flora of Rhodesia. The arid parts of Rhodesia and the flowers they support. Harold ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Kwanangoma - Place of Music (1975)

A film about Kwanangoma Music College. 1975?

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Commandos Three 1964 (1964)

An early recruiting film for the (then) recently formed Rhodesian Light Infantry (R.L.N.).

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: The Saints 1976 (1976)

A film about the 1st Battalion, R.L.I. (Rhodesian Light Infantry), featuring a regimental open day and the Unit on exercise ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Pride of Eagles: The Rhodesian... (1970)

A recruitment film for the Rhodesian Air Force based on an Air Force exercise.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: They Who Dare (1975)

Recruiting film for the Rhodesian S.A.S. Purports to show something of S.A.S. "selection" and a training exercise. 1975?

Production / Donor ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Rhodesian Security Forces in the... (1974)

1974? Actual war footage featuring British South African Police operations against terrorist incursions in the Zambesi Valley. Rhodesian Security Forces ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Rhodesia Unafraid 1978 (1978)

A Rhodesian Corps of Chaplains film on the nature of the communist backed terrorist war. Contains very unpleasant footage of ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Gaza Report 1979 (1979)

Film of Operation "Uric"(?), a Rhodesian Security Forces operation to destroy bridges in Mozambique in order to prevent terrorists entering ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Speech Announcing Ratification... (1966)

Mr Du Pont (O.A.G.?) speaking on RBC to announce the signing of the bill on 18th February 1966 to ratify ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: newsreel

Black and white newsreel. Includes: a pantomime and a visit from Father Christmas;

scrap iron recycling;

School of Archeology;

country holidays for children ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Mzilikazi Profile 1970s (1970)

A film about the Mzilikazi Arts and Crafts Centre, Bulawayo.

Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the ...

 

Rhodesia Collection: Fantasia of Flowers 1970s (1970)

Film showing wild flowers, trees and shrubs in the Rhodesian bush and in and around Salisbury(?).

Production / Donor Details: The ...