Watch dignitaries coming down gangplank on HDtoday. Actuality film. Late 19th century General Officer ranks and higher cross to a ship over a gangplank. As VIPs they meet some people which we don't get to see, then cross back again, getting caught in a crowd melée at the top of the stairs from the quayside.
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In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced...
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Navigating the Indian Ocean in a reconstruction of a 1,200-year-old Arab ship, held together by 100km of rope and 127,000 hand-sewn stitches. The...
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Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead a U.S. expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back.
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Recorded by pioneers as far back as 1805, the Tasmanian tiger has become an intensely mystifying Australian icon, whose entire existence has become...
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The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...
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An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...
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The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry...
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The film offers an insight into the history of the A38 Ship from the conception of its idea to its rich and complex current operation
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Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flourished in the Weimar Republic, perished in the...
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A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...
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An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.