MEDICAL MISSION 1960
The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.
The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.
During a savage Mahdi attack on Barash under Victorian British rule, Richard Baker, thrice demoted sergeant, rescues an English governess, her charge and a callow subaltern. Baker hopes to escape by river to Khartoum but the wreckage of ...
A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's cousin, with whom she builds up a world of their own.
India, in 1895.
Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.
1880's: Tale of two tough British sergeants, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, who journey from India through Afghanistan to the primitive wilds of Kafiristan to seek their fortunes. This results in Dravot being crowned king.
A fictional study of Imperial India seen through the reminiscences of an exiled daughter of a Marajah and an elderly English tutor who meet over afternoon tea. Includes actual newsreels of court life discovered in the archives of the Raj ...
Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.
TV dramatisation of the novel by Paul Scott about an elderly English couple who stay on in India after the fall of the Briitsh Raj. Transmitted in 1980
Biopic of famed Indian lawyer and activist Mahatma Gandhi, whose methods of non-violent protest against the British Empire led to him becoming a popular leader until his assassination in 1948.
About the experiences of two young English women in India, two generations apart, in the 1920s and 1980s. Anne, a young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia, and becomes obsessed with their revelation of ...
Epic drama set in Chandrapore in the 1920s, about the relationships between a group of English people and a Muslim doctor who is accused of assaulting an English woman during a visit to the Marabar Caves.
A parable about the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
William Savage, a collector for the British East India Company is drawn into the Thug cult (a group which strangles and rob travellers) when he attempts to infiltrate their ranks.
An outline of the history of the State of Kotah, including extracts from vintage 16mm films of the late Maharao of Kotah. Introduced by Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah, speaking from Brijraj Bhawan, the erstwhile British Residency in ...