Type of Author Title of work Publisher/Producer

work

Feature film Henry Hathaway Sundown United Artists; available on DVD in UK

(director) from Pegasus Entertainment

Feature film John Houston African Queen, The United Artists; available on DVD in UK
(director) from ITV Studios Home Entertainment

Feature film Philip Leacock Appointment in Mayflower Pictures; available on DVD

(director) London ('Raiders in in UK from DD Home Entertainment
the Sky' in USA)

Feature film Bob McNaught Sea Wife Twentieth Century Fox; currently
(director) available on DVD in UK only as US
import

Feature film Jean-Jacques Noirs et blancs en Originally produced by Artco-Film etc

Annaud (director) couleur (Black & (France); currently available on DVD in
White in Color) UK only as US import
Feature film Peter R Hunt Shout at the Devil Hemdale; available on DVD in UK from
(director) Showbox

Feature film Richard Gandhi Goldcrest for Columbia; available on

Attenborough DVD in UK from Sony Pictures
(director)

Feature film Sydney Pollack Out of Africa Universal; available on DVD in UK from
(director) Universal Pictures UK

Feature film Michael Radford White Mischief Columbia; available on DVD in UK from
(director) Sony

Feature film Anthony Minghella The English Patient Miramax; available on DVD in UK from
(director) Optimum

Feature film Caroline Link Nirgendwo in Afrika Originally produced by Constantin Films
(director) (Nowhere in Africa) (Germany); available on DVD in UK
only as US import

Film With the Indian British Topical Committee for War Films
documentar Troops at the Front
y (Parts 1 and 2)

Film The Handymen Indian Film Unit

documentar
y

Film Bryan Langley Cyprus Goes to War War Office Film Unit
documentar (cameraman)
y
Film John Page West Indies Calling Originally produced by Paul Rotha
documentar (director) Productions for Ministry of Information,
y available for viewing online via Colonial
Film website

Film West Africa Was British Movietone News

documentar There
y

Film Fiji Return

documentar
y

Film Frances-Anne Reunion: West Leda Serene Films

documentar Solomon (director) Indian Women at
y War

Film Rosie Newman Rosie Newman's Contemporary (1939-1946) amateur

documentar Britain At War In 16mm colour compilation held in the
y Colour Imperial War Museum Film Archive,
released on DVD by IWM through
Strike Force Entertainment

Film Patrick Vernon A Charmed Life Every Generation Media

documentar and Ros Gihan
y Williams (co-
directors)

TV John Elliot A Man from the Sun BBC (was re-broadcast on BB4 in
Docudrama (producer & 2010)
writer)

TV Drama Roy Ward Baker The Flame Trees of Originally produced by Euston Films for
series (7 (director) Thika Thames Television; available on DVD in
parts) UK from Fremantle

TV Drama Christopher The Jewel in the Originally produced by Granada;

series (14 Morahan & Jim Crown available on DVD in UK from ITV
parts) O'Brien (directors) Studios Home Entertainment
TV Drama Kevin Dobson & Tanamera - Lion of Originally produced by Grundy
series (6 John Power Singapore Productions (Austalia); available on
parts) (directors) DVD in UK from Simply Media

TV Drama John Burgess & Black Poppies BBC2

Peter Markham
(directors)

TV Drama John Alexander Small Island Originally produced by the BBC;

(director) available n DVD in UK from ITV Studios
Home Entertainment

TV Drama Peter Kosminsky The Promise Originally produced by Channel 4;

series (4 (director) available on DVD in UK from Channel 4
parts) DVD

TV Tom Haydon British Empire: BBC / Time-Life co-production

documentar (producer) Echoes of Britannia's
y series Rule

TV Mark Anderson, End of Empire Granada for Channel 4

documentar Allan Segal, Mick
y series Gold et al
(directors)

TV Another War, BBC

documentar Another Peace:
y series 1940-60

TV Charles Bruce Enemy of Empire BBC

documentar (producer)
y

TV Jenny Clayton Freedom Now BBC/WGBH

documentar (producer) (episode 13 from the
y series 'People's Century'
episode series)
TV Windrush Season BBC
documentar
y series

TV Paul Elston Forgotten Volunteers BBC

documentar (episode from the
y series 'Timewatch' series)
episode

TV Tony T and Untold: Mutiny Illuminations & Sweet Patootee for

documentar Rebecca Channel 4
y Goldstone
(producers &
writers) Helena
Appio (director)

TV The British Empire in TWI for Carlton; currently available on

documentar Colour DVD in UK from Warner
y series

TV Empire Blakeway Productions for Channel 4

documentar
y series

TV The First World War Wark Clements for Channel 4

documentar
y series

TV Sana Bilgrami Treefellers Asylum Pictures for Scottish Television

documentar (director) and
y Robin
MacPherson
(producer)

TV Tony T and The First Black Sweet Patootee for BBC

documentar Rebecca Britons
y Goldstone
(producers &
writers) Cath
Sheehan
(director)
TV Marty Callaghan Blood And Oil - The Inecom Entertainment Company
documentar Middle East In world
y War I

TV Tilman Remme Between Gandhi and Martize Filmproduktion & Context TV

documentar (Director) Hitler (an English translation of theis German
y documentary is available on YouTube)

TV Soldiers of Empire Wall to Wall for Channel 4

documentar (episode from the
y series 'Not Forgotten'
episode Series)

TV Headhunters of Channel 4
documentar World War II
y

TV Barnaby Phillips Burma Boy (episode Al Jazeera English

documentar (reporter) from the
y series 'Correspondent'
episode series)

TV Singapore 1942: BBC

documentar End of Empire
y series

Made for British Campaigns - [Simply Media]

video/DVD Burma 1941 - 45
Made for The History of [Cromwell]
video/DVD Warfare - India: the
Struggle for
Independence

Made for Toby Groom Let Us Die Like History Channel for Commonwealth
video/DVD Brothers War Graves Commission [available
from CWGC]

Made for Trinidad and Tobago [available on YouTube - precise

video/DVD World War II Diaries provenance unclear]

Radio My Century BBC Radio 4

documentar
y series

Radio Africa in History BBC World Service; available on line

documentar via the BBC World Service website
y series

Radio Africa in History BBC World Service; available on line

documentar via the BBC World Service website
y series

Radio This Sceptred Isle: BBC Radio 4

documentar Empire
y series

Radio The Shanghai BBC Radio 4

documentar Sailors (episode
y series from 'The Archive
episode Hour' series)
Radio Martin Plaut Africa's Forgotten BBC World Service
documentar Soldiers (episode
y from 'The
Documentary'
series)
Date Related War Subject area Former Colony/Protectorate
(type of
experience)

1941 Second World War War drama "British East Africa"

1951 First World War Adventure film German East Africa

1953 Second World War War drama

1957 Second World War Drama Singapore

1976 First World War Satire Cte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

1976 First World War Adventure film German East Africa, Zanzibar

1982 Second World War Biopic India, South Africa

(actually 1893-1948)

1985 First World War Social drama Kenya

1987 Second World War Social drama Kenya

1996 Second World War Romantic drama

2001 Second World War Family drama Kenya

1916 First World War Documentary India

1941 Second World War Documentary India

1941 Second World War Documentary Cyprus

1943 Second World War Documentary British West Indies

1945 Second World War Documentary Gold Coast, Nigeria etc

1945 Second World War Documentary Fiji

1993 Second World War

2011 Second World War Documentary British Honduras

2008 Second World War Documentary British West Indies

1956 Aftermath of Second Social drama Caribbean

World War

1981 Eve of First World Family drama Kenya

War

1984 Second World War Drama India

1989 Second World War Romance Singapore, Malaya

1992 Second World War Drama (oral-

and aftermath history based)

2009 Second World War Social drama Jamaica

and aftermath

2011 Second World War Drama Palestine Mandate

and aftermath

1972 General history

1985 General history

1992

1995 Military and India

nationalist history

1996 Second World War Political history India, Gold Coast, Kenya etc
and after
1998

1999 Second World War Military History India

1999 First World War Military and [British West Indies]

diplomatic history

2002

2003

2003 First World War Military and social

history

2004 Second World War Social history British Honduras

2005 First World War Military and social [British West Indies]
history
2006 First World War Military and Mesopotamia
diplomatic history

2008 Second World War Biography / Military India

and diplomatic
history

2009 First World War

2010 Second World War Military history Borneo

2011 Second World War Military history Nigeria

2012 Second World War Military and Singapore, Malaya

diplomatic history
 2005

2007 First World War Military history South Africa

2012 Second World War

2000 Second World War

[?]

2001-2002 First World War

Second World War

??? First World War

Second World War

2005-2006 First World War

Second World War

2008 Second World War

2009 Second World War Military history
Current country's Specific unit/ organisation
name

Kenya. Tanzania

Kenya, Tanzania

RAF Bomber Command

Singapore

Cte d'Ivoire (Ivory

Coast)
Tanzania

India, Pakistan, South

Africa

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

India, Pakistan

India, Pakistan Royal Bombay Sappers and

Miners

Cyprus
Caribbean

Ghana, Nigeria etc 81st and 82nd (West African)

Divisions

Fiji Fiji Military Force

Belize

Caribbean Royal Air Force

Caribbean

Kenya

India
Singapore, Malaysia

Jamaica

Israel and West Bank

India, Pakistan, [Indian National Army]

Bangladesh

India, Pakistan, Ghana,

Kenya etc
India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh

British West Indies Regiment

Belize

British West Indies Regiment

Iraq

India, Pakistan Indian National army

Malaysia

Nigeria

Singapore, Malaysia
South Africa South African Native Labour
Corps
Summary/notes

"... classic war film set in a small African outpost during the Second World War. As the
British fight to control East Africa word reaches them that a vicious local tribe are
being smuggled guns from a unknown source. When the soldiers encounter the
exotic and beautiful Zia, the leader of a travelling trader caravan, she is assumed to
be the supplier of the illicit firearms. But in this thrilling drama the African desert hides
many secrets beneath its ancient sands." [Product description, quoted on Amazon]
Filmed on location in the USA,

Though set during the First World War and largely filmed on location in Africa (albeit
actually in Uganda and the then Belgian Congo rather than the purported setting) this
celebrated film has little to do with the peoples of the areas where the action takes
place: Africans appear only as helpless villagers to be herded away from the mission
or as 'native troops' in the pay of the Germans.

The film, starring Dirk Bogarde, has no direct relevance to the project. However, the
website 'Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2' [ http://www.caribbeanaircrew-
ww2.com/ ] draws attention to a scene showing Bogarde mixing with his peers:
among the officers to whom Bogarde talks, one is obviously of Caribbean origin. If
more films had made a point even of such indirect recognition of the contribution
made to the Allied effort in both world wars by people from Britains colonial Empire,
the Whose Remembrance? project might never have been necessary.

Based on a 1955 novel, Sea-Wyf and Biscuit, by James Maurice Scott, set during the
evacuation of Singapore. The film, made on location in Jamaica, starred Richard
Burton, Joan Collins, Cy Grant and Basil Sydney as four survivors from a torpedoed
refugee ship. Grant plays the black bursar of the ship, Sydney a bigoted civilian,
Burton an Army officer, and Collins a nun (though only the Grant character knows her
secret).

Set in a French colony in West Africa during the First World War, the action begins
with the efforts of the colonists to conscript the local population into fighting the
neighboring Germans. The incompetence of the expedition's white leadership leads to
a disorderly retreat and then gradually to the effective takeover of 'Fort Coulais' by a
teacher who has both brains and some subversive social ideas. At the film's
conclusion, a company of British troops led by a Sikh captain arrive with bagpipes
playing to inform the French that the war is over and the German colony is now
British.
Based on a novel by Wilbur Smith: a kind of maritime 'African Queen' with a rivalry
between Lee Marvin and Roger Moore substituting for the Bogart/Hepburn plot, and,
sadly, equally little real relevance to the Whose Remembrance? project.

Dramatisation of the life of Gandhi. Although including scenes of his early

radicalisation and activity in South Africa, the film concentrates on his leadership of
the Swaraj/Quit India campaigns (including activities during the Second World War),
the achievement of independence albeit at the cost of partition, and his assassination
and funeral.

Romantic drama film based on the autobiographical writings of Karen Blixen

Dramatisation of the 'Happy Valley' murder case among the white expatriate
community in Kenya during the Second World War. The lifestyle depicted has little or
nothing to do with either the war or the film's location - except in so far as it is the
circumstances prevailing in the latter that make it possible to ignore the former, which
is, of course, the point of the film.

Film version of the novel by Michael Ondaatje. Direct relevance to Whose

Remembrance? is confined to the character of Kip, the Sikh bomb-disposal officer,
with whom Hana, the nurse who is looking after the title character, falls in love.

Based on an autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig: shortly before the Second

World War, a German Jewish family emigrate to run a farm in Kenya. All does not go
well, but a return to Germany is impossible, and they are obliged to persevere with
their new lives.

THE FOLLOWING SIX ENTRIES ARE INCLUDED AS SAMPLES OF THE TYPE OF

MATERIAL DESCRIBED IN FULL (AND OCCASIONALLY ALSO AVAILABLE FOR
ONLINE VIEWING) ON THE COLONIAL FILMS DATABASE. THIS SPREADSHEET
DOES NOT REPRODUCE THE ENTIRE CF DATABASE - RESEARCHERS ARE
INSTEAD ENCOURAGED TO VISIT IT DIRECTLY AT www.colonialfilm.org.uk

Units of the former Indian Corps filmed, just after its disbandment, in rear areas
before their departure from France, November and December 1915. [IWM catalogue
entry, also reproduced on Colonial Films Database]

The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the
military importance of their work as the "lifeline of the army" and the value to the men
of their acquired skills once the war is over. [IWM catalogue entry, also reproduced on
Colonial Films Database]

Silent film record of life in Cyprus in the second year of the war. [Full catalogue
record on Colonial Films Database.]
Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to
the British people the West Indians' contribution to the war effort." [IWM catalogue
entry, also reproduced on Colonial Films Database]

Film account of the part played by the 81st and 82nd (West African) Divisions in the
third Arakan campaign, 1944-1945. [IWM catalogue entry, also reproduced on
Colonial Films Database]

Incomplete version (the beginning is missing) of a film about the return home of Fijian
soldiers who took part in the Pacific War. [IWM catalogue entry, also reproduced on
Colonial Film Database.]

"In September 1942, a group of West Indian women arrived here to join the ATS, a
branch of the army. The decision to recruit them followed 2 years of internal wrangling
at the war office. In all, over 300 women served in Britain, Washington and the
Caribbean before the war ended. This documentary documents for the first time the
contribution of these women to WW2." (from Caribbean Tales website)

Film includes a sequence showing the work in Scotland of lumberjacks from British
Honduras (see also 'West Indies Calling' and 'Treefellers' elsewehere).

BFI notes: Documentary about the life of Jamaican-born airman and writer Eddie
Noble (1917 - 2007), and the history of the Caribbean community in the UK, in
particular the generation who offered their support for the war effort. Also explores the
colonisation of the Caribbean.

"A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter
prejudice from the white population and integrate themselves into the existing West
Indian community." (Text from BFI website). Need to check whether the programme
makes any specific reference to wartime experiences.

Television mini-series adapted from the book by Elspeth Huxley: the lives of British
settlers in Kenya in 1913 and through the outbreak of the First World War.

Justifiably well-reviewed and received television adaptation of the Raj Quartet novels
by Paul Scott. Unlike many other film and television interpretations of the Raj, Jewel
includes major plot elements relating to the themes of paternalism and loyalty in the
Indian Army, with specific reference to the INA.
"Tanamera is best-selling author Noel Barber's epic story of passion, war and
forbidden love set in the twilight years of the British Empire in Singapore and Malaya.
John Dexter (Christopher Bowen) is a dashing young Englishman from Singapore's
wealthiest merchant family. Julie Soong (Khym Lam) is a breathtakingly beautiful
young girl from one of the island's most respected Chinese families. Their love is
forbidden - but nothing is as tempting as banished fruit..." [Product description,
quoted on Amazon]

Dramatisation of the experiences of black servicemen from World War II to the

present day. Originally produced by the Royal National Theatre Studio, this special re-
creation for television was filmed on the Broadwater Farm estate in North London. "
(Text from BFI database)

Adapted from the novel by Andrea Levy (published 2004), telling the story of the
Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants to Britain through the characters of the
Jamaican Hortense Roberts and and the white-British Queenie Bligh and the two
Jamaican servicemen Gilbert Joseph and Michael Roberts with whom their lives are
variously entangled.

Television mini-series: in the present day, a young woman travelling to Israel uses her
visit to investigate her soldier grandfather's part in the post-war phase of the British
Mandate of Palestine, which is told in extensive flashback scenes.

13-part documentary series - specific relevance to project not established

14-part documentary series looking at the end of British rule in various states -
specific relevance to project not established. BFI catalogue also lists extensive
holdings of interviews recorded for the series.

13-part series about life in the 1940s and 1950s narrated by Magnus Magnusson -
specific relevance to project not established, but episode titles include 'End of Empire
- Asia' and 'End of Empire - Africa'.

"Documentary telling the story of Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Indian National
Army who fought the British for Indian independence. Uses archive footage and
interviews with those who knew him. " (Text from BFI database)

"European powers are forced to relinquish their colonies in Africa following the
Second World War, but in most cases the newly independent countries would
eventually succumb to poverty, civil war and despotic regimes. India's independence
motivates a generation of war veterans from Africa, who for the first time have
travelled the world, to seek greater autonomy for their own countries." [Text from
Wikipedia]
"A season of programmes on black arts, culture, history and achievement in Britain to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Caribbean immigrants." (Text from BFI
database) - Most of the programmes concentrate on later themes, but the first
programme ('Arrival') includes the stories of some who had served in the armed
services during the war.

"This programme investigates the fate of the two-and-a-half million Indians who
fought for Britain during the Second World War. It looks at how they were forgotten by
Britain, and disowned by India after the war and faced racism and prejudice." (from
BFI website)

"Using evidence from recently declassified government documents and interviews

with veterans of World War 1 (including 110 years old Clifford Powell) this programme
looks at the injustices experienced by members of the British West Indies Regiment
during the First World War. 16,000 black West Indians volunteered for service in the
First World war. The documentary tells how years of appalling treatment led to the
regiments eventual mutiny at Taranto, Italy at the end of the war. It suggests that this
decisive moment sowed the seeds of the independence movement in the Caribbean."
- BFI catalogue description

3-part series; given the premise of the programmes, there is little material from before
the 1930s, and - as various critics have pointed out - the series is mainly focused on
the 'end of Empire' with India particularly strongly represented.

Niall Ferguson's revisionist view of British Empire history - specific relevance to

project not established.

10-part TV series based on the book by Hew Strachan: see especially episodes 3
('Global War') and 4 ('Jihad') for coverage of the war beyond Europe. 'Global War' has
an extended section on the German East African campaign that covers in detail the
use of African soldiers as well as porters by both sides.

"In 1942, nine hundred Belizean lumberjacks left the tropical rainforests of British
Honduras to help Britain fight fascism by felling trees in Scotland. Three of the men
who stayed on after the war look back on their extraordinary lives." [synopsis from
Scottish Screen brochure New Scottish Short Films 2004]

A history of the British West Indies Regiment, concentrating on its creation (by slave
purchase) to fight the French in the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars, the 1807
emancipation of the soldiers (the origin of the title), the Regiment's later role in
Britain's imperial wars in West Africa, and its disbandment in 1927. (The First World
War years having previously been covered in 'Untold Mutiny' - see above.)
First World War origins of the modern Middle East situation

The life and death/disappearance of the militant Indian nationalist leader Subhas
Chandra Bose, including an account of the Indian National Army recruited from Indian
Army prisoners of war to fight on the Axis side against the British.

Episode from the series in which Ian Hislop explores the stories behind war
memorials - in this case, "the compelling and poignant stories of soldiers from across
the British Empire during the First World War." (Text from Chennel 4 website).

"In 1945, as war raged across the world, an incredible drama was unfolding in the
remote jungles of Borneo. This film follows the extraordinary experiences of a group
of stranded US airmen, the local tribe of Dayaks, and Major Tom Harrisson, one of the
most eccentric officers in the British Army, who encouraged the ancient custom of
headhunting against the Japanese." (Text from Channel 4 website)

"Some 100,000 African soldiers were taken from British colonies to fight in the jungles
of Burma against the Japanese. They performed heroically in one of the most brutal
theatres of war, yet their contribution has been largely ignored, both in Britain and
their now independent home countries. In the villages of Nigeria and Ghana, these
veterans are known as 'the Burma Boys'. They brought back terrifying tales from
faraway lands. Few survived, even fewer are alive today. Al Jazeera's Barnaby
Phillips travels to Nigeria, Burma and Japan to find a Nigerian veteran of the war and
to talk to those who fought alongside him as well as against him. He even finds the
family that saved the life of the wounded veteran in the jungles of Myanmar." [Text
from Al Jazeera website]

A 2-part television series telling the story of the fall of Singapore in 1942, timed for the
70th anniversary. Included are re-enactments of Indian troops who mutinied or joined
the INA after the Japanese invasion, and shots of headstones of colonial soldiers
killed, as well as interviews with civilians who lived through the Japanese occupation
and historians including Peter Stanley, recently retired Historian at the Australian War
Memorial, Max Hastings and others.
Educational resource about the black South Africans who enrolled in the South
African Native Labour Corps, many of whom lost their lives in the sinking of the SS
Mendi in the English Channel in 1917.

"This two part feature shares some of the extraordinary moments and near death
experiences from Trinidad and Tobago's World War II veterans. Retired officer
Gaylord Kelshall, author and creator of The Chaguaramas Military History and
Aviation Museum expounds on the Caribbean region and its importance geopolitically
and strategically during World War II." [YouTube description]

"A collection of 251 5-minute oral history recordings which were broadcast daily on
BBC Radio 4 throughout 2000. The recordings cover a multitude of topics from
warfare, crime and mental illness to sporting achievements, economics and
telecommunications." (BL description) Possibly relevant themes later gathered into
the BBC World Service website include 'Witnessing War', 'Colonialism and
Decolonialisation', 'Birth of a Nation' and 'Witness'.

"Africa in History looks at six historical debates" (BBC World Service website) -
Episode 5, Colonialism, mentions the experience of fighting in the Second World War.

"The Story of Africa is a twenty four part narrative history of the continent, taking
listeners from the Dawn of Man to Independence." (BBC World Service website) -
Episodes 20, Life under Colonialism, and 21 Challenges to Colonialism, may have
relevance to the project, but this has not been checked.

"This Sceptred Isle: Empire is a narrative history of the British Empire from Ireland in
the 12th century to the independence of India in the 20th, told in 90 programmes."
(BBC website description). Relevant programmes include (but may not be limited to):
The Empire and the First World War (Episode 82); Mesopotamia and the Balfour
Declaration (Episode 84); The Empire and the Second World War (Episode 88)

"Chinese seafarers made up a considerable proportion of the merchant navy fleet

during the Second World War. But after the war was over, they were not as welcome
in Britain as they had been and hundreds of Shanghai sailors were hurriedly
repatriated. Ivan Howlett tells the story of those Chinese seafarers from Liverpool,
and hears from the children they were forced to leave behind." (from BBC website)
"In this documentary, Martin Plaut hears first hand from the African troops who
participated in the war and who played a critical part in freeing the world from the
threat of fascism." (Text from BBC website)
Colour code Feature films Film documentary Film documentary TV drama and
(in Colonial Films docudrama
database)
TV documentary Made for Radio
video/DVD documentary