A feature film made by the Japanese, using the appropriated facilities of the Hong Kong film industry to illustrate the Japanese attack on Hong Kong. A propaganda film which revolves around the Japanese troops' ...

The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its greatest danger") and determination ("Preparing for the attack which must come").

Film stresses the global nature of the war, and ...

Rangoon docks, Burma 4 February 1942. View over dock area. Large number of Indian troops disembarking from a troop ship and marching along the docks. View over the harbour. Civilians working past a British soldier in full kit wearing a pith helmet. ...

START 00:00:00 At sea in the western Mediterranean with Force H, circa 10 - 13 November 1941: three men are transferred from foc'sle of HMS Laforey to the aircraft carrier HMS Argus in a cargo net as the destroyer steams at slow speed along the much ...

I. Burma, late March 1942. Men of the 1st Battalion Gloucester Regiment climb into a wooden-sided truck. Shots of the moving truck from another moving vehicle. Troops waving at the camera from the rear of the truck (one making the thumbs-up sign and ...

The George Cross exhibited at Zebbug.

A Spitfire. Barrage of HAA in the sky. Parachute coming down. Ju 88s dipping to bomb Luqa. Two submarines at Manoel: the submarines' smoke screen. A Ju 88 on ...

Newsreel item showing supply convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, Operation Harpoon.

Establishing LSs over the convoy. MLS off the starboard bow of HMS Liverpool steaming at speed. LS of HMS Malaya and pan right to HMS ...

Workers at Senglea waterfront, repairing the Brisbane Star. Bomb-damaged bastion of Cospicus. Workers looking at the Cross, which is guarded by the Dockyard Police and Royal Marines at Hammerton Wharf ...

I. Miscellaneous naval material. LS across harbour at Alexandria - Nelson Class battleship signals to shore. MS profile of H Class destroyer, Stern 3/4 MS, HMS Troubridge. Signal line shot between destroyers and despatch bag passed across. Night ...

I. Film opens by listing outstanding RAF events of the year (then continues with two newsreel items) which show that 1942 was the year of passing to the offensive. Outstanding achievements listed include Fighter Command's great sweeps, 1000-bomber ...

Opening titles - "Today the destiny of nations depends on their possession of the metals vital in war". Film outlines Canada's contribution to the Allied war effort with both raw minerals in the 'Great ...

The Punjab Premier visits troops.

Sikander Hayat Khan arrives at Eighth Army Tactical Headquarters in the Western Desert. He meets Lieutenant-General Ramsden and ...