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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan achieved independence as Sudan on 1 January 1956.
Fictional story filmed in the Sudan. The film tells the story of Boru, adopted into the 'Habbania' tribe after his ...
An account of an expedition to the Sudan undertaken by Major Court Treatt, his wife Stella and his brother-in law ...
INTEREST. A trip via rail, car and ferry from Cape Town to Cairo, showing the imperial and economic aspirations of ...
9th Sudanese regiment marching across the Omdurman Battlefield. Abu Hamed Railway Station; shipwreck; sandstone quarries at the narrowest part of ...
AMATEUR FILM of a Safari in East Africa made by Glen Kidston. The film shows scenes from the Suez Canal, ...
Amateur footage of young Alan Maffey (future Lord Rugby) in the Sudan; includes opening of the Dinder River Railway in ...
Drama. A man wrongly assumed the title of Earl of Petherton and is forced by blackmail to continue the deceit; ...
Wadi Halfa - climbing up hill; view of Delta (?); crocodile ; different types of snakes and scorpians handled by ...
Filmed on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association and the Empire Cotton Association, the film shows cotton growing and ...
Khartoum and Omdurman, the White Nile, the Fajoli people; Redjaf and Kassala; the Sennar dam and railway development, Port Sudan; ...
TRAVELOGUE. The Blue Nile; monuments of Wadi Halfa.
The Blue Nile (9-14); the ancient monuments south of Wadi Halfa (22-29); further ...
A party of Sudanese chiefs visit London (35ft).
TRAVELOGUE. Scenes in Sudan.
Main title. The new Nile bridge at Kosti with a steamer passing (13-38); ferry scenes at Omdurman ...
Main title. The official party walk on to a raised platform decorated with Union flags and take the salute (35). ...
INTEREST. The journey of a letter from Africa to Paris.
No main title. An African paddles a reed canoe through a ...
DRAMA. A British general is captured by a Mahdi. His daughter, is also imprisoned but escapes and summons the Scottish ...
King George V and Queen Mary en route to the Delhi Durbar. They are greeted at Port Said? and attend ...
DRAMA. Military adventure set in the Sudan, concerning the rescue of a younger brother by the elder brother disguised as ...
INTEREST. Travelogue.
Main title. A native family is seen emerging one after another from a mud hut that has a thatched ...