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Amateur film shot by Major Michael Nelson of 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army while seconded to the Kurram Militia on the North-West Frontier records social and military activity, and the landscape, between August 1946 and ...
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OLD BARAK 1947
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
A fishing trip by canoe on the River Barak (?): Indian porters on a bridge, scenes from the canoe (38). A European in shorts and topi stand by a fish held up by an ...
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Amateur film shot by Captain Clifford Williams (Sikh Regiment) when a junior staff officer with the Punjab Boundary Force, attached to 11th Infantry Brigade, records the eastward movement of Hindu refugees across the ...
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Story of two workers, Ramdas and Mangri, in an Indian tea garden and description of Indian village life in Assam.
Bullock carts arrive at the market of Lakhmijian ('Garden of the River Goddess') near the Assam River where Naga ...
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KIM 1950
USAThe orphan son of a British soldier, after being given a message for a British secret agent in India, is trained to spy and completes a mission before going to school.
Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1900 novel, Kim was ...
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RIVER 1951
USAEpisodes in the lives of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. Filmed in India, from a book by Rumer Godden.
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Story of half-caste's officer's devotion to duty, his love for General's daughter. Filmed in Cinemascope. Based on novel by Talbot Mundy.
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BHOWANI JUNCTION 1956
USAIndia 1947. Story of an Anglo-Indian girl, feeling rejected by both her worlds, in the conflict between her attraction for an English soldier and the love offered her by a young Sikh, as well as another Anglo-Indian.
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INDISCHE GRABMAL 1958
German Federal Republic, France, ItalySeeta is captured and Berger is reported dead after a cliff fall. Berger's sister and her husband are suspicious and the latter is commissioned under false pretences to build a tomb where Seeta will be buried alive ...
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TIGER VON ESCHNAPUR 1958
German Federal Republic, France, ItalyArchitect Herald Berger is commissioned as advisor to Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur. He becomes involved with Seeta, an Indian dancer who Chandra wishes to marry. In a jealous rage he has Berger cast into the ...
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NORTH WEST FRONTIER 1959
Great BritainSet in the North West Frontier province of British India around the turn of the century against a background of tension between the Moslems and Hindus. A rebel Moslem faction is seeking to kill the six year old son of the ruling Hindu ...
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STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY 1959
Great BritainIndia 1820. An officer of the British East India Company, against all opposition, tracks down a gang of religious thieves and murderers.
The following statement regarding the story prior to the opening credits: 'For hundreds of years ...
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