Geoffrey Barkas

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2014.

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Secrets of India: The Fair City of Udaipur.

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Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.

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The Maharajah of Udaipur is moving offices, cause for extravagant celebration in the northern Indian city. The pageant includes elephants decorated with gold anklets and a military band strikes up, while commoners throng the streets.

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In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.

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During World War I, the British navy disguised some of its warships as civilian cargo ships, known as Q Ships, in order to fool the Germans. German U-boat commander Capt. Von Haag spots one of these ships, commanded by Adm. Sims, in the English Channel and begins tracking it, leading to a war of nerves between Von Haag and Sims.

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Filmed amongst the Sura and Angas people of the Bauchi Plateau in Northern Nigeria, where the rivalry between a British District Officer and a tin miner leads to war

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A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the conflict between two colonies of wood ants joined by a piece of tiber laid across a moat at a zoological garden.

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The 1955 Ulster Motorcycle Grand Prix. Footage of the preparations being made before the race. GV's from around the track and images of John Lomus winning and receiving a rosette from the officials.

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Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

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American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.

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