Documentary: British Empire in Colour (Part 1 of 5)

This great documentary examines the last post-war decades of the British Empire.
It starts with the coronation of her majesty Elizabeth II, then talks about its legacy in its former territories such as Rhodesia, India, Canada and Australia. The amazing part is all the footage is in colour!

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Education

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• humanities
• social
• science
• economics

[edwardschlosser1]

More leftist propaganda. Great Britian was a great empire that spread wealth and culture around the globe. They have nothing to be ashamed of. The weak were subjugated as they should be, and the strong gave them civilization, science and a modern world. India would be nothing more than an imoverished toilet today if it were not for the British empire. The conquered indigenous peoples were inferior and as a consequence needed to be civilized by a superior race.

[sequins91]

@Mrparrot73 Typical self righteous Americans! Preaching and taking the moral high ground. Probably the most hated nation on earth, hated for its greed, its war mongering, its dishonesty, Did any US President ever apologise for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees in Iraq in the late 1980s, or apologise for standing by the Khymer Rouge as it carried out genocide to the tune of 2m? , Or for supplying the German forces during WWII? What does it tell you about America? Tossers!

[metalkommunisten]

@edwardschlosser1 lol, not sure if that was a joke or trying to be serious

[JORDHOLMEN]

@edwardschlosser1 Ofcourse did Great Britian spread democrazy and ideals alike around the globe. But there is always 2 sides of the coin and Great britian caused alot of destruction with the leaving of India. The issues in Africa today mainly exist because of the dividing of Africa at the peace treaty in Versailles. Europe and the USA have done alot of good but saying that only good came out of the colonisation is entirely false. Then you can debate which side was dominant, the good or the bad?

[Iguanaintrouble]

Thank you for uploading this.

I really think the world would a more boring place if the British didn't make documentaries :) They are the best.

But people, don't judge based on nationality, it is foreign policy-makers that have decided the fates of our respective countries. It is not you, if I say I hate British imperialism I am not attacking the British people, I am criticizing those who participated for reasons of greed- though this was not all, it was many.

[Iguanaintrouble]

@edwardschlosser1 Haha, if you were actually an educated person and not a white supremacist fascist maybe people would take you seriously. As it is, your opinion is not viable nor based on facts.

[nalimmba]

@edwardschlosser1 - you have no idea of civilization, India was civilized when britain did not even know what the civil means. And your philosophy means that "Stronger is mightier" , then just wait for some time then World will be ruled by the Indians & by the ways The richest man in your country is a man of Indian origin and the people from your country clean his toilets and you guys do a great job in that, Good for you because for the coming future that's what you will be doing.

[bakugancollecterZ]

@edwardschlosser1 Idiotic social darwinism, don't act like an egotistic maniac.

[EliasCalabretta1]

just wondering. this documentary says part {III}, now is there parts 1 and 2, or are they hard to come by?

[Southland27]

@FullSwagSyceGame507 "britain has been in some sort of conflict since before the romans landed">>> Well there you've hit the nail on the head. That little island was always in conflict because most of the time it was being invaded. Then it found it's feet and the mixture of war like races developed into the English. Don't think that the Scots were innocents in any war. The Irish were occupied to stop bigger invaders like Spain from using Ireland as a back door to invade England.