British Empire Film
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    Out of Africa (1985)

    Married Baroness Blixen (Meryl Streep), pen name Isak Dinesen, loves British hunter Denys Finch...

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    The Four Feathers (2002)

    Accused of cowardice for resigning when assigned to a dangerous post, a former British soldier...

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade picture
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    The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

    Lords Raglan (John Gielgud) and Cardigan (Trevor Howard) doom the British against the Russians at...

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    Breaker Morant (1980)

    Australian Lt. Morant (Edward Woodward) and two fellow officers are court-martialed for executing...

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    White Mischief (1988)

    A titled Englishman's (Joss Ackland) bride (Greta Scacchi) has a scandalous affair with an ill-fated...

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    Gunga Din (1939)

    British soldiers (Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen) and their water carrier face...

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    Gandhi (1982)

    Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning portrait of the man whose policy of nonviolence won India's...

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    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

    Controversial British officer T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) learns the culture of Arabs (Alec...

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    Tower of London (1962)

    Roger Corman's remake of the 1939 classic about Richard III's murderous rise to power in...

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    North West Frontier (1959)

    A British captain (Kenneth More) uses an old train to get a Hindu prince, his governess (Lauren...

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    Zulu Dawn (1979)

    In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....

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    A Passage to India (1984)

    Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) tour 1920s India with a native doctor...

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    Heat and Dust (1983)

    Half a century after her great aunt abandoned her diplomat husband for a disreputable Indian ruler,...

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    Mountains of the Moon (1990)

    British explorers Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) search Africa...

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    Conduct Unbecoming (1975)

    Based on a play by Barry England, the British Conduct Unbecoming revolves around a sexual...

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    The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

    An Irish engineer (Val Kilmer) and a U.S. hunter (Michael Douglas) stalk two lions decimating a...

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    Zulu (1964)

    A missionary (Jack Hawkins) and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson) watch African warriors attack a small...

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    Khartoum (1966)

    British Gen. Charles ``Chinese'' Gordon (Charlton Heston) becomes a martyr in hostilities with the...

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    Bengal Brigade (1954)

    The muscular physique of Rock Hudson is given plenty of screen exposure in the British-India...

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    Cotton Mary (2000)

    Desperate to ingratiate herself into a British life and renounce her Indian heritage, a woman...

  • The Man Who Would Be King picture
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    The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

    Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) sends two British scoundrels (Sean Connery, Michael Caine) to...

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    Mrs. Brown (1997)

    The friendship of a loyal servant, Scotsman John Brown (Billy Connolly), revives the spirits of...

  • The Bandit of Zhobe picture
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    The Bandit of Zhobe

    A tribal chief (Victor Mature) declares war on the British after false soldiers slay his family in...

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    Kim (1951)

    Kipling's Irish orphan (Dean Stockwell) roams 1880s India with a Tibetan priest (Paul Lukas) and a...

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade picture
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    The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

    British Lancers (Errol Flynn, Patric Knowles) vow revenge after villainous Surat Khan slaughters...

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    Disraeli (1929)

    The prime minister of Great Britain makes a decision to purchase the Suez Canal despite opposing...

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    Fire Over England (1937)

    Queen Elizabeth I (Flora Robson) sends a naval spy (Laurence Olivier) to the court of Philip of...

  • The Four Feathers picture
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    The Four Feathers (1939)

    An English officer (John Clements) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice...

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    Java Head

    A heavy-breathing melodrama of the White Cargo school, Java Head was adapted from the novel by...

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    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)

    A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah...