Programme looking at SAS operations during the Falklands War and focusing in part on a daring night-time raid made weeks in advance of the invasion. The assault force were flown into an isolated Argentinian air ...
Journalist Max Hastings returns to the Falklands for the first time since the war.
After a brief introduction, which covers the political and strategic background, the command structure and the despatch of the Task Force, Part 1 concentrates on the planning and conduct of the landings, including the preliminary and diversionary ...
Port Stanley would clearly be the key battlefield; Part 2 highlights the importance of concentrating the maximum number of battalions/commandos for that battle as quickly as possible. It deals with the Argentine air attacks, the problems of logistics ...
Part 3 does not aim to give equal coverage to all battalion/commando actions. It adopts a theme, the Application of Force, and illustrates selected aspects: (a) The Indirect Approach - 42 Commando's attack on Mt. Harriet, coming in, as it did, ...
Part 4, taking place in the studio, is a series of discussions with selected participants, designed to highlight areas from which, with their experience, useful lessons can be drawn. These include: (a) Higher level command and control; (b) Command ...
Marking the 20th anniversary of the Falklands War, this documentary relays the impact of the war at home, particularly with regard to the turnaround in the political fortunes of PM Margaret Thatcher.
Transmitted in the seventh week of the Falkland Islands crisis, consists of a studio discussion before an invited audience with the participation of MPs Cyril Smith, Nicholas Winterton and Stan Orme, and a select number of ...
Studio debate on the Falklands Crisis, taking place as the British Taskforce makes its way to the islands. Present on the panel are Jim Clement, Executive Secretary of the Sheep Owners' Association on the islands; Capt. ...
Includes a studio debate on the situation in the Falklands, transmitted during the seventh week of the crisis.
Include a studio debate on the situation in the Falklands, seven weeks after the crisis began.
Life in the Falkland Islands and the fears of the islanders that they might be annexed by Argentina.
Play by Don Shaw, based on historical records of the Falklands Crisis in 1770, when an Argentinian Fleet threatened the Falkland Islands.
TV play telling the inside story of how the Thatcher government went to war to regain the Falkland Islands.
In 1987, the BBC commissioned a play to mark the fifth anniversary of the Falklands War. The play was never shown. This documentary examines the political furore surrounding the decision not to show it.
Instructive video regarding road safety for military personnel serving in the Falkland Islands.
Notes
Tape 4
(Reel 1) CU of landing ship Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Sir Galahad (L3005) leaving Plymouth (April). Helicopters on deck are seen with troops at attention lining ship's rail, as the ship passes the camera. RFA Sir Percival (L3036) at sea, two days ...
Documentary in which people involved in the Falklands War, which began five years ago, discuss their views of it, from both the Argentinian and British sides.
Rushes to be inserted into series. Pipers playing lament as a container with war dead is taken off ship.
A report on how the growing conflict in the Falklands is affecting people in Britain. Peter Gill reports from the UN with an interview with Sir Anthony Parsons.
Report on the developments in the crisis involving the Falkland Islands with rep orts from Buenos Aires on the effects of the military costs on the country and o n the options left open to the British government.
The Falklands crisis: report from Argentina on the hardening ofattitudes, and on the latest moves at the United Nations
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 ...
The development of the Falkland Islands dependencies under British administration; the lives of the men stationed there.
Although British claims to parts of the Antarctic can arguably be traced as far back as Anthony de la Roch& ...
Special report on the Falklands Crisis with opinions from Argentinian and British citizens linked by sattelite and ground links from London and Montevideo to the studio.
At Kyaukse, south of Mandalay on the road to Meiktila, Indian troops of 80th Indian Infantry Brigade (20th Indian Division) occupy the town.
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As 14th Army advances across the Shwebo plain in Burma, British troops of 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (32nd Indian Infantry Brigade, 20th ...
Troops of 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment (33rd Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division) enter Myingyan, a town on the River Irrawaddy in Burma ...
Indian troops of 17th Indian Division, supported by the fire of a battery of self-propelled 105mm guns, enter the town of Pegu 50 miles from Rangoon, ...
Film of the Falls Patrol in British Guiana.
Footage of the patrol and one of the soldiers talking about it: the adventure, challenge and change it provides; the boat trip and its interest; back onto the land, which ...
The story of HMS Belfast's 1961-1962 Far East commission.
The World's Fair at Seattle holds no surprises for the men of HMS Belfast - since they were flown out to their ship at Singapore in ...
Two items on the logistic aspects of the campaign in Burma: the "bloodless battle" of the latter stages of the 15th Indian Corps' advance through the Arakan peninsula, and parachute supply drops to units in the jungle ...
Aerial sequence showing elements of the Far Eastern Fleet steaming in review order.
Aerial shots from a helicopter passing over ships of the Far Eastern Fleet steaming in ...
The first of three episodes. An epic story of romantic love, intrigue and treachery set against the splendour of the India of the British Raj. The hero, Ash, is a young officer torn between two conflicting cultures.
A look at the end of 150 years of British colonial rule in Hong Kong, featuring interviews with Hong Kong nationals as they prepare to adjust to life under Chinese rule, outgoing governor Chris Patten, and foreign correspondents who look at the ...
Amateur travel film.
[From notes supplied by archive donor:]
Farewell to India 1945. Home, Cheam, Brother David's wedding, Nellie, 1952. Christening of John A. Jewell (nephew)
The improvements one can make to a farm with the help of the conservation officer, the procedure, including aerial photographyand land capability map, through to the results.
The care and management of dairy herds in Jamaica in order to maximise milk yields.
Over agricultural shots, a Jamaican voiceover explains that 'dairying in Jamaica is developing rapidly into a flourishing industry'. The commentator states ...
Field Officers from the Agricultural Department are helping farmers in Basutoland (now Lesotho) by advising on new methods for improving crop yields, pastures and livestock, soil conservation and the use of machines. The school of ...
Outlining farming methods in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and highlighting in particular the importance of rainfall.
The film opens with a shot of an African on a tractor, but then focuses predominantly on the experiences of ...
Problem of the Italian Colonies, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia; how they were acquired by Italy; their position in the war and their future. This Modern Age series. no. 20.
Dramatised documentary set in a village in Kenya contrasts the old and the new generation through the story of a village elder respecting traditional practices in agriculture and medicine and his son, a Petty Officer serving in a Royal Navy ...
A film which contrasts the old and the new outlooks in Kenya. An elder of a coastal village has a son serving in a minesweeper who returns home on leave but soon finds himself in conflict with his father's superstition and faith in magic. ...
A musical passion play, performed by students from Kwanongoma College of Music and United College of Education, Bulawayo. Sung in a local dialect and filmed at Serima Mission, Zimbabwe, Easter 1976.
News From Nyasaland - Queen's birthday celebrations, visit to tea factory, Sir Robert Armitage at Lake Nyasa.
Up Here From Down Under - Australian trade mission.
The Broken Hill Festival - ...
