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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 ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Native drivers and British soldiers stand by the bank of the river urging on the long teams ...
ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town to head the British army during the Boer War.
A small contingent of soldiers ...
ACTUALITY. Men in pith helmets on horseback ford a river and climb the bank. MCU men driving carts pulled by ...
ACTUALITY. Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat ...
"ACTUALITY". A contingent from a British Army unit marching down a street, followed by a small group of boys who ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Cavalrymen dressed as Boers escort a number of men wearing kilts towards and past the camera. One or two ...
DOCUMENTARY. "Fake newsfilm" of a Boer war skirmish.
A number of Boer volunteers direct rifle fire and cannon fire at the ...
RECONSTRUCTION. A number of cavalrymen dressed as Boers ride towards and past the camera brandishing their swords. A solitary rider ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Three British cavalrymen ride from right to left across a flat landscape, with a group of cavalry ...
ACTUALITY. City Imperial Volunteers, carrying rifles and equipment, clamber up the gangway of a troopship at the foot of which ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Faked Boer War incident.
View from behind the "Boer" position as they fire with rifles and a small cannon against ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Scots' Guards march through the market place in Bloemfontain.
Foot soldiers carrying pick-axes or rifles march (R-L) past ...
Footage of Kruger leaving the Hotel De Ville in Paris, late in 1900.
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Covered wagons drawn by mules, each flying the Red Cross flag, fording the Vaal river (13ft).
Note: Filmed ...
ACTUALITY. Boer WAr. A procession of ox-drawn wagons passing down a trail over a hill towards the camera; the oxen ...
ACTUALITY. Boer war. Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet ...
"H.M.S. Powerful arriving in Portsmouth Harbour, bringing home the heroes of Ladysmith". Shot of the four-funnelled cruiser steaming in to ...
ACTUALITY. Military parade.
A naval detachment, including Marines, from H.M.S. `Powerful', marching through London prior to a review by the Prince ...
British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900.
The film depends ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.
A long double line of naval ratings hauling ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Ceremonies on the occasion of the raising of the Union Jack at Pretoria, 5 June 1900.
Long shot ...
A 4.7-inch naval gun being drawn across the drift by ox-teams. As the gun descends the steep embankment, it is ...
A pantomime on the Boer War in the form of a boxing match between men dressed as John Bull and ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Boer War(?)
A battlefield, with cannons and wounded soldiers, is filmed from behind the British line(?) A horse-drawn ambulance arrives ...