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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan achieved independence as Sudan on 1 January 1956.
Adventure story about cowardice versus bravery among British soldiers in the 1880s.
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, ...
Amateur. A journey from Khartoum, Sudan to Lake Chad.
Traders in market square selling onions etc Ancient ruins in desert - ...
The discussion on the admission of Sudan to the United Nations. Sir Pierson Dixon supports the application as does the ...
This film describes how new life was brought to the immense desert of the Sudan by harnessing the waters of ...
The importance of the life-giving waters of the Nile to Sudan and Egypt with property depending on the success of ...
"Opening of Pump Scheme - Governor and District Commissioners" - British officials, Egyptians, band. "Sudan Defence Force - Kaid Inspecting ...
Tinted titles. "1B Tulun and Mohammed" "Ali Mosques" "Citadel. Dervishes" "Pyramids. Sphinx" "Luxor, Karnak and Thebes" - street scenes taken ...
The Sudan dispute; facts of the Egypt-Sudan controversy. This Modern Age series no.8.
Village life in Sudan.
Aerial shots of the Nile are followed by scenes of a negro tribe and of a native ...
DOCUMENTARY. The Libyan campaign of 1940-41 in which General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
r.1 British military cemetery in ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: BRITISH ADVANCE INTO ABYSSINIA BATTLE DEMOSNTRATION BY OUR ARMY LORD HALIFAX ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: AS AIR BLITZ PETERS, BRITAIN AWAITS ISSUE OF INVASION THREAT KING ...
For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY GROWS APACE AIR WAYS AREN'T ALWAYS WAR ...
For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA. Items include: YOUNG ENGLAND PREPARES CONVOYS CARRY ON PROVINCIAL BUSES HELP LONDON QUEEN ...
For a detailed shot list contact the NFTVA. Items include: DUNKIRK BOATMEN HONOURED A SOUTH AFRICA'S HOME GUARD KING RECEIVES ...
Harry Faversham finds himself branded a coward by his friends and family when he resigns his commission before the war ...
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant David Heber-Percy while serving on HMS Colombo (1933-1935) of shore scenes in the ...
The King's African Rifles' duties in the northern provinces of Kenya and Uganda are portrayed in a compilation ...
INTEREST. The Lango of Imatong. PAN the rest-house of Lomaling (6-18). Men carrying a carcase on a pole (23). Part ...
Amateur footage of varied scenes of the Sudan and Egypt, mostlytaken by Lady Maffey
Amateur footage of scenes from the life of the Governor Generalof Sudan and his son
Amateur film shot by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Phillips Dixon while serving as hydrographer on HMS Dahlia shows work of locally ...
Amateur film shot by Gerald Selous as British Consul at Basra (1930-1932) and as Commercial Counsellor at Cairo ...
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 ...