Do carry on with your mud pies - British Imperial movies

So, what are your top British imperial movies? I mean along the lines of Zulu...but not Zulu.

Chin chin.

Sharpe mini series.

Would the Hornblower Series be classed as one? if so then that

I think there was one about how the industrial revolution only affected Britain and nobody else... oh wait no because that would be a complete lie.

Kartoum (1966)

"Chinese" Gordon goes down, with his upper-lip still stiff, against hordes of fuzzy-wuzzies and whirling-dervishes, while Lord Kitchener leads the relief expedition that doesn't quite get there in time. (Leaves on the line perhaps?)

There are just a couple of tiny flies in the ointment: Gordon is played by some damned Yank! (Charlton Heston - at least he was good with a rifle), while the evil Mahdi (boo! hiss!) is played by none-other than Laurence Olivier.

The same conflict also spawned The Four Feathers. Of the several treatments of this A.E.W. Mason novel, I prefer the 1977 TV mini-series with Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward and Jane Seymour. Stirring stuff (what-ho)!

Originally Posted by Jeimuzu

I think there was one about how the industrial revolution only affected Britain and nobody else... oh wait no because that would be a complete lie.

Haha very true!

On a sidenote why would Stavroforos want to watch a movie about the British Empire? He hates Brits. Maybe he's just looking for a movie that portrays us in a negative light?

Aside from Zulu, there's Ghandi, it was quite a good movie and portays the British relatively negatively so Stavy should love it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi_%28film%29

There was also a cracking documentary series about the Empire called The British Empire in Colour, it should prove to be quite enlightening.

Four Feathers was good, but too much of a love story.

Young Winston. A biographical film about the life of Winston Churchill up until he is elected to Parliament. It stars Simon Ward as Winston Churchill. It also has, Anne Bancroft, Robert Shaw, Antony Hopkins and John Mills.

The man who would be King. Staring Sean Connery and Michael Cane.

Originally Posted by G-Megas-Doux

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The man who would be King. Staring Sean Connery and Michael Cane.

Oh I remeber that film now, thats a really good film

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys!

I like how you guys automatically assume I hate Brits because I don't agree with your dogmas, lol.

Are there any movies about the British invasion of Canada during the French and Indian War?

Which dogma's would they be? I've seen you on here disagreeing with facts and being a general troll/pain in the arse, not much else.

Sharpe series
Hornblower series
Zulu obviously
Kartoum

All the good ones have been listed so far, to be honest.

Barry Lyndon is set in the Imperial era, and does have sections on the 7 Years' War I believe.
Last of the Mohicans is also set during the 7 Years' War

Those are the only two I can think of.

If you want a good documentary film about the Battle for Quebec, then Dan Snow recently made one about it, i'll look it up now.

Originally Posted by Jeimuzu

If you want a good documentary film about the Battle for Quebec, then Dan Snow recently made one about it, i'll look it up now.

Yeah, I watched that. Its a time and place in history I knew very little about but I was encouraged to do a bit of research afterwards.

Gandhi?

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Originally Posted by Lumina

Gandhi?

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Lol, you just bring out something that would make British sad.

Originally Posted by hellheaven1987

Lol, you just bring out something that would make British sad.

This national guilt complex is a particular British trait. Note that Gandhi was a British film made by Sir Richard Attenborough.

Here is another film set more firmly in the Imperial period, yet also serving as vehicle for British self-recrimination

Charge of the Light Brigade (1968).

In this treatment the charge is warped from an accident of war into the inevitable culmination of the idiocy of the British officer-class. In particular the vague and confused Lord Raglan, Nolan the philanderer and bull-headed sworn-enemies Cardigan and Lucan. It has a really strong cast, able to bring the leading characters into stark and brutal relief. The interspersed satirical cartoons leave the viewer in no doubt that this is definitely a polemic directed at the British class system, and also at contemporary issues from the 1960's.

Oddly enough, I had already read Cecil Woodham-Smith's "The Reason Why" (upon which this film is based) at school before seeing the film, so the feud between Cardigan and Lucan was familiar.

Still, it could have been much worse: compare it with the gung-ho US treatment starring Errol Flynn, Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) with its contrived revenge story, invented to justify the charge.

General Wolf was crazy.

Someones already suggested it. And I agree, its a good movie.