The story of Alec Smith, son of the Rhodesia Prime Minister, as drop-out, former drug smuggler and addict and his role as as army padre and peacemaker in Zimbabwe

Impressionistic account, without commentary, of day-to-day life onboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong via Singapore.

"Monday 19th May PORTSMOUTH" The destroyer HMS Coventry sets off from ...

Men of the Yorkshire Regiment being interviewed on various locations in Gibraltar.

The men discuss how they came to be in the army and how they like Gibraltar. Scenes of a band parading for the Changing of the Guard, ...

Narrated documentary film depicting the 'Laying of Colours' ceremony of the 1st Battalion Rhodesian Light Infantry on 17/10/80. The occasion marked the disbanding of the Infantry after the establishment of the Republic of Zimbabwe. ...

A look at the Metro-Cammell factory in Birmingham which designs and builds a variety of metro trains, looking in particular at the planning and building of the 'Kowloon Connection', a metro system between Hong Kong and Kowloon. The designing and ...

I. Scenes onboard Royal Navy submarine.

II.Seeking and destroying enemy aircraft by ship launched missile system.

III. Royal Marine Commandos attack and successfully destroy an enemy radar system.

IV.Urgent supplies are ferried by ...

Illustrates the range of base training and field activities of the RAF Tactical Communications Wing, established to provide mobile ground communications to helicopter/Harrier squadrons in forward deployment, and occasionally in locations outside NATO ...

General film on Hong Kong and its people, covering the contrast of city and rura l life, customs, beliefs, cuisine, festivals and tourist attractions

Shows how Hong Kong has developed from a trading port in the 19th century to an international centre of world trade. Argues that this has been achieved by a freedom of economic action, producing jobs, rising living standards and the lowest ...

Outlines the growing diplomatic row between Britain and Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands.

Dramatised film in which the Leander Class frigate HMS Achilles (F.12), deployed to the Caribbean, provides disaster relief following a hurricane. While the ship's Wasp helicopter assesses the extent of the damage, teams from the ship land on Antigua ...

A specially extended edition of TV EYE on the Falklands, at the end of week six of the crisis. First, Peter Gill's report from New York looks at the attempts of British diplomats (in particular Sir Nicholas Henderson, British ...