British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.
British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...
British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.
British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...
News report on the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on security operations in the Crater district of Aden during the Aden Emergency.
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Titling includes "A BBC Television Film. Hanford. BBC. D.5607/5608. Hard News. ( ...
Lord Mountbatten visits Kuala Lumpur; Singapore, where he is seen with the Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) and aboard a hovercraft; Borneo, where he inspects the Indonesian border installations; Bangkok; Hong Kong, where he sees the naval and RAF bases ...
Aerial shots over the Falklands coastal region; badly damaged buildings.
(Reel 1) Shots show Falklands Sound and other areas from the air. Signs of the recent battle are just about evident (the ...
Drama set in Kenya. Two American cowboys are recruited by a British rancher to help him in a project involving the capturing and taming of wild animals and by breeding new stock to provide a source of food. The object is to halt the ...
A look at modern life in several south African countries.
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...
Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient stone circles in the Gambian interior.
Demonstration of the ability of the R.R.A.F. to attack a target with a number of different levels of ferocity.
Edited scenes showing the ceremony on the parade ground, Saint Patrick's Barracks, Ballymena; also includes recruits from St Helena delivering family messages to camera, and a message from ...
Unedited, extended coverage of the ceremony in which members of Alanbrooke Platoon (Royal Irish Regiment) receive their regimental caps. At the end of the tape, three black soldiers record ...
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 ...
Shows the ecological system based on the Amate fig tree, found in the tropical forests of Belize. The tree in turn is dependent upon the instinctive behaviour of microscopic black wasps, which lay eggs within the fig, which ...
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an interrogation in a native village - they torture and kill a villager and raze some of the ...
DOCUMENTARY. A report on Anguilla's illegal declaration of independence from the West Indies Associated States.
DOCUMENTARY. Scenes following the quelling, by British troops, of the attempted rebellion in Anguilla; a demonstration; British troops on the island; a party given by the Royal Navy; a speech by Ronald Webster.
Explores the conflicting attitudes towards development in an 'under-developed ar ea' the Seychelles, and points out how economic advance can destroy more than it creates.
Documentary on the choice of the Atlantic island of Ascension as a tracking station for satellites and rockets and its transformation.
‘Drab endless vistas of scree’ was Michael Orrom's first impression of ...
Roy Welensky is interviewed by Malcolm Muggeridge, topics include the Commonwealth, racial policy, South Africa, possible constitutional change, imperial rule and its legacy,mixed marraigesetc...
Military footage filmed during the occupation, showcasing exclusively Argentine hardware and activities; extended montage against a background of martial music. Also shots of the ...
Army Video Diary for October 1996, with footage provided by the Army Mobile News Teams for the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Germany.
Items include operations in ...
DRAMA. Quinn, an elderly eccentric, believes he has spotted a wanted war criminal behind the counter in a London Labour Exchange.
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.