Stephen Venables, mountaineer, explores the glaciers of South Georgia.
Stephen Venables, mountaineer, explores the glaciers of South Georgia.
Story of adventures of three brothers in the Foreign Legion, each of whom is taking the blame for jewel theft in England. Re-make of a 1926 silent version. From a novel by P.C. Wren. Screenplay by Robert Carson.
Unedited rushes. This was the largest convoy to enter Tripoli Harbour.
Aerial and ground footage of operations by RAF Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers based at Chiringa, Bengal Province, India (Bangladesh).
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The making of Star lager from Nigeria.
The film opens with the Star lager trademark as local music plays. As three African men sit outside drinking Star lager, a close-up of a tray reveals the company logo. The voiceover states that 'These ...
Abu Baker is a poor fisherman from the east coast of Malaya. With only a sailing boat he is at the mercy of tide, wind and weather. If these turn against him he runs into debt with the fish merchant. But with government help he obtains a new ...
Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes shot down over Calcutta'; maintenance of aircraft; workshop work; class ...
Training in Britain's last jungle training country, Belize in Central America. Following jungle patrols, navy movements and air to ground/sea attacks.
The future of Belize, former British colony of British Honduras.
Amateur film shot by a local Bahamian cameraman records the life in the Bahamas of the twenty English evacuee schoolboys evacuated via SS Orduna from Belmont School in Hassocks, Sussex for the period from 1940 to 1944, and shows the Duke of Windsor ( ...
His Excellency the Governor-General of Bengal, Mr Richard Gardiner Casey and Lieutenant-General W J ("Bill") Slim visit Mandalay, Burma, to observe ...
INTEREST. Travelogue. The island of Bermuda as a holiday resort. Includes the ceremonial handing over of office from one Governor General to another. A trip around the island by carriage. St Peter's Church and Gibb's Hill lighthouse.
Investigation of a series of murders of people who have paid into a fund to go to the one who survives.
Near Nairobi, Kenya. Africans build a good permanent house using mainly materials which are available on the spot.
In a local village a colonial official arrives in a car to help re-build a house for locals. The film commentary ...
How a college education in Dar es-salaam is changing the lifestyle of Victor Kimeseru, a Masai tribesman from Tanganyika.
Aspects of the major social problems raised by the rapid industrialisation of Northern Rhodesia; work done by the missionaries.
African adventure with wild animals and Leopard Men.
An expedition goes to South America to find the papers proving the right of a jungle girl orphan to a large fortune.
India 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for an English soldier and the love offered her by a young Sikh, as well as another Anglo-Indian.
Bhowani Junction  ...Account of the delights of fishing for tuna and other large fish.
At the Wankie National Park (later called the Hwange Game Reserve),in Rhodesia, Tourists' observation platforms. Water hole drilling. Eland, water buffalo and smaller game are captured for transfer to the new National park at Bulawayo.
A visit to Sierra Leone where much of the world's diamond industry is centred. Processes of preparing diamonds for dispatch. Commentary by Franklin Englemann.
In Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia) a parade is mounted in honour of the birthday of Princess Beatrix.
Footage of the parade ...
First of six current-affairs programmes addressing issues of interest to black people. This edition features Mel B of the Spice Girls in interview; a report on how the island of Antigua is coping with the influx of ...
INTEREST. The extraction of asphalt from Pitch Lake in Trinidad, its transportation and export.
Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn the villagers against the nuns. Finally Sister Ruth becomes mad and attacks the mother superior only to bring about her own ...
DOCUMENTARY. A report by Bill Grundy and Chris Kelly from Basutoland shortly before it became the independent state of Lesotho on October 4th, 1966.
Cocoa plantations in the Gold Coast (Ghana) and how they are affected by insects and the negligence of farmers.
In the 17th century, the notorious pirate Captain Morgan is pardoned and made the new governor of Jamaica, in return for which he is to rid the Caribbean of pirates and maintain the peace between England and Spain. But a traitor in his midst is ...
An army captain wanders, wounded, into a Bedouin tent, and is nursed by the Sheik's daughter, whom he marries.He returns to the army as the battle of El Alamein begins. He is killed during an act of heroism and is unable to see his child. Years after ...
A doctor of the Indian Army Medical Corps administers a blood transfusion in the field to a wounded soldier of the Lushai Brigade at Zampi, in the Chin ...
At 30 West African Field Dressing Station at Kyaukpyu, volunteers from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines give blood for transfusion to the wounded men of ...
The single remaining span of the Pegu Bridge, originally blown by the British in 1942, is demolished by engineers of the 94th Faridkot Field Company ( ...
The single remaining span of the Pegu Bridge, originally blown by the British in 1942, is demolished by engineers of the 94th Faridkot Field Company ( ...
In northern Burma, a joint patrol of Royal Scots Fusiliers and Royal Engineers of 36th Division sets out to demolish Japanese bunkers.
Sapper ...
The life of the Hong Kong fishing families, and how they have benefited from the establishment of the Fish Marketing Board, assuring fair prices and enabling them to organise their work better.
Science documentary series. This programme follows the efforts of a team of experts who, using the latest technology, are searching for the body of Alan Addis, a Royal Marine who disappeared on the Falklands Islands 18 years ago. ...
Uses diaries, memoirs, photographs and archive film to examine the role that the media played in the Boer War 1899-1902.
Gunners of 36th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, equipped with QF 40mm (Bofors) guns, practice loading and unloaded their weapons from a ...
Mandalay, Burma, has been left devastated by the bombing and shelling of the British forces attacking the Japanese.
General views of Mandalay ...
Views of bomb-damaged buildings on Akyab Island, in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, with British troops coming ashore.
Two shots of a large ...
FIlm, probably from Akyab Island in the Arakan coastal region of Burma, showing an inspection by senior officers of bomb damage to buildings.
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Landings are made on beaches at Ramree Island with survey shots of damaged and destroyed buildings on the island.
A Chevrolet CMP lorry tows an ...
HMS Eskimo, a Royal Navy Tribal Class destroyer, bombards Japanese shore positions while troops make an amphibious landing in the Letpan area of the ...
Footage of the bombardment of Fort Dufferin in Mandalay, Burma, as seen from Mandalay Hil.
View of Fort Dufferin with raised dust. Long lens ...
Reel 1: Long shots of terrain at Gangaw shows smoke spreading and ...
Indian troops with enemy equipment captured after the battle for Wadi Akarit. The local population of the Gabs Gap returning to their homes. The town of Sfax.
Troops of ...
A colour travelogue intended to encourage tourists to visit the Eastern Districts of Rhodesia.
The film shows the the great ruins of Zimbabwe, follows a car journey to Umtali, before travelling through the fruit growing north and then on ...