A recruitment film for the Rhodesian Air Force based on an Air Force exercise.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains a number of films purchased from ...
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'. ...
A summary of the year's events. Lake Kariba hydrofoil .Jumbo jet start flights. Wanki Colliery Disaster Rhodesian Olympic Team. International rugby. Polo matches. Race meetings. Miss Rhodesia beauty contest. Special last running of ...
1974? Actual war footage featuring British South African Police operations against terrorist incursions in the Zambesi Valley. Rhodesian Security Forces in the Zambesi Valley. - Aerial view of the Northern Rhodesian bush filmed from ...
Film commisioned by the Anglo-Rhodesian Society. A good background to UDI. Contains an interview with Ian Smith.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and contains a ...
A magazine programme. Items are: Umvukwes Art Group; Maize and Tobacco - 'A Tale of Two Crops'; 'School for Sailing' - held annually on Lake McIlwaine.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the ...
Mr Du Pont (O.A.G.?) speaking on RBC to announce the signing of the bill on 18th February 1966 to ratify Rhodesian Independence.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians ...
A film about the 1st Battalion, R.L.I. (Rhodesian Light Infantry), featuring a regimental open day and the Unit on exercise in the Eastern Highlands.
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the ...
Recruiting film for the Rhodesian S.A.S. Purports to show something of S.A.S. "selection" and a training exercise. 1975?
Production / Donor Details: The Rhodesia Collection was donated by the journal Rhodesians Worldwide and ...
A Motoring holiday in Rhodesia.
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 ...
Interview with Ian Smith.
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 ...
Film on Rhodesia's history and the reasons for UDI and the Internal Settlement. Contains war footage. many stills of early Rhodesian settlers, pictures of early towns and businesses. Also includes pictures of the railway and the ...
Film about Aloes and the flora of Rhodesia. The arid parts of Rhodesia and the flowers they support. Harold Basil Christopher Garden,
Young white painting landscape in the wild. The Traditional thrashing of corn. The Zimbabwe ...
In 1925 the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) was sent to South Africa to persuade the government not to to withdraw frm the British Empire and become a republic. He sailed on the ...
I. Item stressing the importance of engineering checks - Squadron Leader Murphy discusses a problem he once encountered with his Hawk aircraft's control column during a training mission ...
The first in a three part series about the WWII campaigns fought by Canadians, using archive footage and dramatised readings from soldier's letters and diaries. It questions whether the sacrifices were necessary or the result of ...
The building of the Chimya, the great ceremonial house, has begun. The site for the Chimya is cleared and the scaffolding erected. Building materials are gathered from the forest. There is a preparatory ceremony for the ...
Reel 1: Various dignitaries attend the passing out ceremony of the first six Kenyan Air Force pilots, who have undergone their training with the Royal Air Force. Those attending include Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya president, and Malcolm McDonald, the British ...
Port Stanley shop "Falkland Islands Home Industries". Civilian vehicles and military vehicles. Church. Good quality street scenes. Interview with Colonel Mohamed Ali Shineldin (note ...
Service Recruiting film intended to recruit teachers to work in British service schools overseas, particularly in Malta, Cyprus and Hong Kong. The film describes the problems faced by families that spend a considerable amount of time moving due to ...
Compilation produced by the Royal Navy of various items filmed by Naval cameramen around the world during 1967.
Film opens with an introduction from Lieutenant Richard Baker, latterly a popular broadcaster, who ...
Memorial service at Westminster Abbey for the late Sir Michael Le Fanu, Admiral of the Fleet, with the Duke of Edinburgh, Lady Le Fanu and many other dignitaries attending. Includes a remembrance speech given by Admiral Sir Peter Hill Norton, who ...
Visits Scarborough's tunny fish museum and meets Mark Goff a fisherman who used to be involved in the local tunny fish trade. Also looks at the typical east end food of Eels as sold in Fred Cook's eel shop in Dalston, London ...
Reel1: Staff College Course visit to tank demonstration at Royal Armoured Corps, Bovington and visit to Royal Navy (F141 and carrier RO9 at sea). (1958)
Reel 2: Cyprus. Headquarters 3 Infantry Brigade on exercise. Landing in Nicosia, with Greek ...
A information piece on the work of AFBA, the Aden Forces Broadcasting Authority, responsible for the forces' radio entertainment. A short sequence in the middle of the reel shows an Army ...
Television programme about life in the RAF.
The film follows 3 characters as they pursue their duties over a seven day period culminating in 'Exercise White Tent', designed to test Harriers in the Arctic conditions ...
Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.
Journalist Simon Winchester, who has lived in Hong Kong for seven years, argues that the British government has mishandled the future of Hong Kong because it has failed to understand the Chinese.
Briefing film on the border between Hong King and the People's Republic of China. Showing road and rail crossings and the views from the British Army observation posts, including scenes of Chinese troops drilling and training.
An interview with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home on the rejection by Rhodesian opinion of the independence proposals worked out by himself and Ian Smith
The heroin trail moves from Burma to Hong Kong, as director Adrian Cowell and cameraman Chris Menges continue their exploration of the drugs trade. The culmination of thirty years' work, this series includes their footage first shown in the ...
An examination of sanctions busting in Rhodesia, and how goods are getting in and out of the country.
Life in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Training at Reading (careers office flashback), receiving uniform. "You are a WREN... and to the Navy, you're someone special." Jobs available, including: air traffic control; ...
1. Umvukwes Art Group - A women's painting exhibition in Salisbury. the group started in July 1972 in Umvekwes (in the North East of the country). Most of the women are farmers'wives and terrorist attacks are mentioned. Scenes are shown of the ...
Portrait of the culture of South Arabia just prior to the revolution and take over of the area by the National Liberation Forces.
Scenes around South Georgia after its recapture; shipping in Falklands Sound and casualties arriving on board Canberra.
Opening shots show the small settlement at South Georgia after its recapture ...
Journalist John Sweeney looks at the media in Hong Kong, particularly the daily newspaper `Apple', run by Jimmy Lai, which is critical of the government in Beijing.
Helicopter hovering. SRN5 manoeuvring about desert airfield - clouds of sand etc. SRN5 at sea (from helicopter). Film slate: Derek Stewart productions Aden 29.11.65. CUs of SRN5 on airfield. At sea and in harbour.
SRN6 (Naval markings) seen in hangar, across water, up beach etc. Being refuelled, people embarking and disembarking, stopping near seal colony, returns to base.
The travel writer and broadcaster, Pete McCarthy, visits St Helena as part of his travel series.
St Helena in the South Atlantic is one of Britain's few remaining colonies. In April, led by Prince Andrew, the 500 islanders celebrated 150 years of British rule. The occasion was Prince Andrew's first official visit overseas.
TRAVELOGUE OF ST. HELENA.
A television recording of the State Opening of Parliament in 1970.
The recording shows the Queen's arrival, the summoning of the House of Commons and the Queen's speech mentioning, among other things, the EEC, ...
TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the fall of the Briitsh Raj. Transmitted in 1980
Cindy Buxton and Annie Price were on South Georgia making a film about the king penguin colony there when the Argentines invaded. This film is not only a unique wildlife document but also a record of their adventures and survival.
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Fourth of nine programmes showing the work of the Royal Hong Kong Police, filmed over a three month period during the summer of 1977. Inspector Brown is under investigation by the anti-corruption commission.
