Pustolovski kapetan Jack Vrabec potuje po vodah Karibov. Toda njegove dogodivščine se končajo, ko njegov sovražnik, kapetan Barbossa, ukrade njegovo ladjo Črni biser in napade mesto Port Royal, ugrabi Elizabeth Swann, hčerko guvernerja. Will Turner, Elizabetin prijatelj iz otroštva, se pridruži Jacku, da bi jo rešil in najti črni biser. Toda Elizabetin zaročenec Commodore Norrington jih zasleduje na krovu HMS Undaunted. Poleg tega sta Barbossa in njena posadka žrtve uroka, s katerim so obsojene, da živijo večno in da se vsak večer spremenijo v žive okostje, v duhovne bojevnike.
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
Zgodovinski spektakel Lawrence Arabski je za številne eden najboljših filmov vseh časov. V zadnji anketi uglednega britanskega filmskega časopisa Sight and Sound je bil izbran za četrtega najboljšega vseh časov po izboru anketiranih režiserjev. Leta 1967 je osvojil sedem oskarjev, med drugimi za najboljši film in režijo. Kontroverzni vojak in pustolovec T. E. Lawrence med vožnjo z motorjem umre. Po pogrebu se med prisotnimi odpre razprava o pokojniku. Njegovo ključno obdobje je bilo obdobje prve svetovne vojne. V tem času je bil poročnik britanske vojske v Kairu. Znan je bil kot ljubitelj arabske kulture in svojeglav ter neposlušen častnik. Kljub temu je bil zaradi poznavanja arabskega sveta poslan na misijo, da bi preiskal možnosti arabskega princa Faisala v uporu proti Turkom. Lawrence, izjemno šarmanten in iznajdljiv človek, je postal pomemben udeleženec v dogajanjih, ki so spremenila svet.
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
Zgodba se dogaja leta 1898 in spremlja britanskega častnika Harryja Fevershama, ki na predvečer predvidene bitke zoper sudanske upornike, t.i. mohamedanske fanatike, zapusti svoj položaj. Prijatelji in zaročenka mu pošljejo štiri bela peresa in tako ga simbolično označijo za strahopetca ter izdajalca. Da bi opral svoje dobro ime in upravičil nerazumljivo odločitev, se preobleče v Arabca in odpotuje v Sudan, kjer naj bi izza sovražnikovih črt deloval kot britanski izvidnik in obveščevalec. Ko napadejo njegov nekdanji regiment, Faversham pod krinko reši življenje tistih, ki so ga zasmehovali in blatili kot strahopetca.
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Januarja 1879 so Britanci napovedali vojno zoper zulujska plemena v Južni Afriki, v pričakovanju, da njihova dobro oborožena in izurjena armada ne bo imela težkega dela. Garnizija 1350 britanskih vojakov se je pod hribovjem Isandlwana spopadla z več kot 4000 zulujskimi vojščaki in ti so pregazili ter močno zdesetkali Angleže. Po zmagi nad Britanci so se Zulujci odpravili po njihovih sledeh do majhnega misijona Rorke's Drift, ki je služil kot oskrbovalna postaja in ga je stražilo še kakšnih 150 vojakov. V enem dnevu in noči, v sredo 22. januarja 1879 ter še naslednje jutro, je v zaporednih napadih Zulujcev potekalo obleganje majhne postojanke, vendar napadalcem ni uspelo vdreti vanjo in so se naposled umaknili.
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Alexandria, Egypt, 1940. Three young Egyptians come to the aid of a woman being attacked by three British soldiers. One of them is arrested and thrown in jail. When the military surrounds the police station and begins an all-out assault, it's up to one man, Gen. Youssef al-Masri, to defend his prison and protect his people.
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.