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Based on real life events, the film takes place during the guerrilla phase of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Three officers ...
Film biography of the youth of Winston Churchill.
Ladymead is a Georgian Mansion in which four generations of women have lived while their husbands are away at war. ...
Drama tracing the life of a crusty old man of World War II to his military beginnings as a dashing ...
Traces the life of a Boer leader, Kruger.
The daughter of an army captain is degraded into a servant when her father is lost, but she refuses to ...
FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, ...
About family life against a background of national events from 1899 to the 1930's.
The funeral of Christian de Wet, Boer guerilla leader and politician in South Africa (61ft).
Main Title. The service being conducted by the Right Reverend Francis James Chavasse, Lord Bishop of Liverpool, in the open ...
"BACK FROM THE BOER WAR. The 12th Lancers disembark from the transport "German" in the East India Docks, the last ...
"BACK FROM THE BOER WAR! The 12th Lancers, who are the last to return home from South Africa, disembarking." (11). ...
Main title. "Pretoria: decorating the graves of British soldiers killed in the war." MCS women moving amongst the graves and ...
Main title. The long funeral procession of Sir George White moves along a road lined with people (69ft).
No main title. Lord Frederick Roberts passes in an open carriage. He reviews the veterans of the Boer War (46ft). ...
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. A Zulu crouches on all fours and ...
No titles. The Boer generals, Louis Botha, Jacobus Delarey and Christian De Wet walk down the gangplank from the liner ...
ACTUALITY. The departure of Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for South Africa to sign the Boer peace ...
No title. A decorated street with banners carrying the words `Upholders of the Empire', `Welcome Home', with a railway station ...
Lord Kitchener on his return from the Boer War, inspects troops on Southampton quayside. Amongst his aides are Generals John ...
DRMA. A man is seen at home with his wife and children, when he receives a summons to hold himself ...
DRAMA. A soldier returns to the family home but can get no reply. A neighbour emerges from her house. (Jump ...
A dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two Boers sneaking up ...
Dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two nurses saved from the ...