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A picture of the contribution made to Britain's war effort by people from Newfoundland.
The film, which has throughout ...
Interview with Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa prior to independence.
Description of life in the principal regions of Nigeria; Katsina, the Plateau country, and the Eastern and Western provinces; shows ...
The courage and service of the British merchant seaman, typified by the story of a Newfoundlander who had ...
Describes the 5 races of people in Malaya and their work in the factories and fields.
The historic past, cultural and economic present and potential future of Palestine are all portrayed as (mainly implicit) ...
A John Page film showing the various processes involved in pottery making in the Gold Coast (Ghana). "The film opens ...
Short account of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Gambia as part of his four-month world tour, ...
Recruiting film for Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), based around an interview for an officer's commission.
Colonel ...
Documentary on the war in Burma.
An interim report on the progress of the Fourteenth Army offensive in Burma.
Description of the logistic problems of ...
The new resident minister in British West Africa, Captain the Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour M.P., meets the Nigerian Emir at ...
The background to the Pearce Commission Report on Rhodesia.
Portrait of the British forces helping to defend Aden.
Behind the tranquillity of the Aden coast (sunbathing on beach) ...
The work and living conditions of the scientists who man the seven bases set up in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. ...
An interview with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home on the rejection by Rhodesian opinion of the independence proposals worked out ...
The cultivation of sisal on a plantation in Tanganyika; harvesting and processing the leaves; transporting the baled fibres for export; ...
On the cultivation and treatment of sisal in Tanganyika with an emphasis on the importance of the crop for war ...
Life in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Training at Reading (careers office flashback), receiving uniform. "You are a WREN... ...
"This is a brief survey of progress made by the British Government in helping forty separate colonial territories to raise ...
A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College.
A British voiceover introduces the Bantu ...
A justification of the Anglo-French 'intervention' in Suez.
Introduction sketches background: Britain's "thankless and difficult" task in Palestine mandate; ...
Shows all stages in the cultivation of tea in Nyasaland.
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its ...