Movies: British army

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit....

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa....

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicte...

An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade. The British Army began using bicycles from the 1880s, to expand from horse transport for men. Supplying bicycles to th...

Two British redcoats contemplate their place in the American Revolutionary War and the world at large....

Documentary about life in the Welsh Guards regiment's Prince of Wales Company, led by Major Crispin Black. Filmmaker Molly Dineen gains unique access to the company as they protect an RUC police station during a tour of Northern Ireland in the mid '9...

During World War One, a British Army corporal tries to save his young friend from a terrible injustice....

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers of troops on board wave back to loved ones and the crowd including thr 2nd Battaliion West Yorkshires...

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front....

A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the death of a soldier. But when a squaddie is shot on the doorstep, then real life intrudes in the shape of the police and security forces....

Tommy's Christmas parcels are despatched to the Front in a fleet of trucks....

To mark Armistice Day 2019, Nottingham Forest Supporters Group, Forza Garibaldi, unveiled a display in tribute to the former players who joined up to serve their country....

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI....

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle....