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North West Frontier (Flame over India) An old rickety steam train is used to carry an Indian Prince through hostile territory...
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The Deceivers An East Indian Official is shocked to find out that a professional caste of murderers operates in his district...
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Another Dawn A love triangle in a small military outpost on the edge of the empire causes problems for all concerned...
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Five Weeks in a Balloon A revolutionary balloon design allows this expedition to cross Africa to thwart slave traders...
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She Three Englishmen are lured to a lost city in the African desert ruled by the beautiful, 2000 year old, tyrantess Ayesha...
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Jungle Book The 1942 version of the classic Kipling story...
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The Bounty An interpretation of the famous mutiny in the Pacific Ocean...
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The Last of the Mohicans The British and French are fighting for supremacy on the North American continent...
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Call of the Yukon An author looks for material for a story only to find more than he bargained for...
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King of the Royal Mounted Can a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman foil a German plot to produce Compound X?
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Gunga Din This is a classic film retelling Rudyard Kipling's tale of an Indian helping to thwart the infamous Thuggees
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Kim This is another retelling of a Kipling story. This time a young boy becomes involved in the 'Great Game'.
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The Long Duel Trouble on the frontiers of Imperial India. The natives are restless...
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Lord Jim A British sailor tries to redeem himself after abandoning his ship...
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55 Days at Peking The Boxer Revolution puts all the Europeans in China in danger...
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The African Queen The classic tale of a missionary and a reprobate who take a steamer down the rivers and lakes of Africa to fight with the Germans...
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Shout at the Devil Three adventurers decide to blow up a German cruiser in Tanganyika in World War One...
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Sanders of the River British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and deals with gun-runners and slavers...
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Sundown British agents in East Africa work to foil a Nazi plot to supply rebels with guns...
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Death Hunt Set in The Yukon in 1931, a trapper and a Mountie have to sort out some problems...
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Nostromo Based on Joseph Conrad's critique of colonial and economic development in a fictional South American country...
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Death Drums on the River A 1960s re-make of the Sanders of the River film. Some nice music and a great landscape supply the perfect background for this unusual police story...
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East of Sudan Adventure set in Sudan at the time of the Siege of Khartoum. Two British soldiers attempt to save a governess and her charge from a fate worse than death.
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Diamond City (1961) A boy tries to save a wounded and out of control rhino from both his well-meaning game warden uncle and bloodthirsty Kenyan tribesmen. Set in Kenya at the tail end of the Mau Mau Revolt. |
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The Sea Wolves Based on James Leasor's book entitled 'Boarding Party: The True Story of the Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse'. It is loosely based on a true story.
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Taipan Based on James Clavell's book of the same name: The story of the founding of Hong Kong and the creation of the fictional Struan commercial empire through intrigue, brawn and opium dealing.
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We of the Never Never A woman, Jeannie Gunn, has to battle more than just the inhospitable Outback of Australia...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Not particularly historically accurate. The film does use the British Empire as the backdrop as Will Turner and Jack Sparrow team up to save the Governor's daughter
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest The East India Company provides the villain in this film as corporate mercantilism takes over from the simple pillaging by pirates.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End The East India Company is still funding and financing an undead mercantile empire that Jack Sparrow and the nine Pirate Lords come together to try and put an end to it.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Former pirate captain Barbossa is now a privateer in King George II's Royal Navy and is trying to find the fountain of youth before Jack Sparrow can.
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