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    Bolland Collection

    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 ...

     
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    DECEIVERS 1988

    Great Britain

    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.

     
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    PARTITION 1987

    INDIAN SUMMERGreat Britain

    A parable about the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.

     
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    KIM 1984

    Great Britain
     
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    Great Britain, USA

    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.

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    GANDHI 1982

    Great Britain, India, USA

    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.

     
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    STAYING ON 1980

    Great Britain

    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

     
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    India

    Period film, set against the annexation of the kingdom of Avadh by the British in 1856.

     
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    USA

    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.

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    WORLD CINEMAIndia

    Story of the effect of war on the people of a remote rural area of Bengal in 1942.

     
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    Great Britain

    India, in 1895.

     
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    Great Britain

    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 ...

     
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    CHARULATA 1964

    WORLD CINEMAIndia

    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.

     
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    USA

    The work of medical missions in Southern Nigeria, Sarawak, Nepal and South India.

     
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    Great Britain

    Set 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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    Great Britain

    India 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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    German Federal Republic, France, Italy

    Seeta 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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    German Federal Republic, France, Italy

    Architect 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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    USA

    India 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.

    Bhowani Junction  ...
     
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    USA

    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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    RIVER 1951

    USA

    Episodes 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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    KIM 1950 enhanced entry

    USA

    The 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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    Great Britain

    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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    Great Britain

    Assam tribal dances taken in Shillong when Lord Mountbatten arrived in 1947.

     
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    Great Britain

    Five Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in the Himalayas. It prospers until a series of mishaps turn the villagers against the nuns. Finally Sister Ruth becomes mad and attacks the mother superior only to bring about her own ...

     
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    India

    Rarely seen footage of Gandhi filmed by his great nephew, Kanu.

    Speaks to a large crowd, possibly outside a railway station. Gandhi and entourage walking along in wooded surroundings. They cross a bridge and enter a village where they are ...

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include HYDERABAD TODAY NEWS IN BRIEF FRIENDSHIP CARGO LEAVES AMERICA BELGIAN CROSS COUNTRY RACE HAIFA HOLLAND TOYS AND JOYS FOR THE KIDDIES CEYLON PARLIAMENT LONDON'S NEW TUBE ...

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include KENYA TATTOO PANDIT NEHRU AT SRINAGAR BRADMAN'S RECORD AT SYDNEY MATCH OUR ROVING CAMERA REPORTS... MALTA PARIS MALAYA'S GIFT TO ROYAL COUPLE

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: DAY AND NIGHT STRUGGLE TO CLOSE FEN GAP FAREWELL TO THE NEW VICEORY (LORD AND LADY MOUNTBATTEN LEAVE FOR INDIA) (DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER ARRIVES BACK IN LONDON) TRIBESMEN ...

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shot list, contact NFTVA. Items include: SOUTH AFRICA DRAWS TEST WITH ENGLAND INDIA ACCEPTS THE PLAN KING ABDULLAH IN JERUSALEM TUDOR MINSTREL FAILS

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film showing Muslim refugees arriving in Pakistan from India and at Lahore station.

     
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    GB

    The events in Karachi and in Delhi around Independence Day, 15 August 1947.

    On the eve of independence, Jinnah (the new Governor General of Pakistan) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive at the Constituent Assembly ...

     
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    GB

    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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    GB

    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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    Great Britain

    Political and social life in India.

    Credits. Crowd of Indians. Commentary states that among the contradictions of India a new nation is being born. Boys begging. Images of Gandhi, Jinah and Nehru. Banner reading 'Pakistan is our ...

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include:

    NO RETURN TO SIXPENCE IN THE POUND NEWS IN FLASHES ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH REVIEWS ARMY CADET FORC NEWS IN FLASHES ; LORD ALEXANDER LEAVES FOR CANADA INDIA MISSION MEETS ...

     
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    DELHI 1946 1946

    Great Britain

    AMATEUR. Amateur footage of Delhi - street scenes; Viceroy's house; mosque; Delhi Junction station, etc..

    Lakes. Monument. Fountain. Archway. Kingsway with carriages - street scenes. Ekka. Council Chamber. Building - street scene. ...

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain
     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include:

    8,000 RANGERS COME TO TOWN INDIA PLAN ANNOUNCED MORE V-DAY ARRIVALS FRANCE BEAT ENGLAND 2-1 TOJO FACES TRIAL WORLD FARMERS SEE BRITISH AGRICULTURE

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: WELSH NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD ; PRINCESS ELIZABETH ADMITTED AS BARD FESTIVAL IN INDIA ATOMIC AGE

    The religious festival of Jagannath in Puri.

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: JERUSALEM TAX OFFICE BLOWN UP INDIA. KHYBER WARRIORS HAIL VICEROY ARRIVAL OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER IN DELHI 'OVER THE STICKS' THRILLS AGAIN MAKING MONEY ROYAL TRAIN FOR ...

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include:

    F.A. CUP FINAL SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY INDIAN MISSION VISIT TAJ MAHAL EMPIRE RULERS HERE FOR TALKS INDIAN OLYMPICS BIG FOUR CONFERENCE IN PARIS KING AND SCOUTS

     
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    CALCUTTA 1946

    USA

    The friends of a murdered man go out into the hotels and bazaars of Calcutta to find the murderer.

     
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    BRITISH NEWSGreat Britain

    For a detailed shot list contact NFTVA Items include:

    OPENING THE MONTGOMERY BRIDGE H.M.S. FLYCATCHER PRINCESS ELIZABETH WITH W.L.A. U.N.O. FACES UP TO THE FOOD CRISIS BURMA RICE REACHES INDIA OPERATION 'MUSKOX'

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur film of the spring festival at Udaipur. Views of the Residency and its garden. Poeple dressed in their best assemble on the banks of the lake. Dancing girls wait to board a launch. Rajput nobles assemble on the landing stage to ...