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Title: North-West Frontier - any inspirational movies out there?
Post by: traveller on April 16, 2016, 03:29:03 PM
Looking for movie inspiration for colonial wars in Afghanistan/North West frontier. Beside "The Man who would be king" and a few scenes from "Young Winston". What else is to be found? Grateful for any advice!
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Post by: joroas on April 16, 2016, 03:36:19 PM
Carry on up the Khyber   :D
Gunga Din
Soldiers Three
Kim
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Post by: guitarheroandy on April 16, 2016, 04:00:31 PM
And of course, North West Frontier starring Kenneth Moore. Great little movie. Set in 1905, but still some great action shots of tribesmen attacking a fortified town and various attacks on a train.
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Post by: Arthur on April 16, 2016, 04:03:19 PM
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer :

http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0026643/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0026643/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
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Post by: abelp01 on April 17, 2016, 12:18:05 AM
The drum
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Post by: Arthur on April 17, 2016, 12:34:56 AM
Quote from: abelp01 on April 17, 2016, 12:18:05 AM
The drum

Which can be viewed on YouTube :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XRxWs0XZOk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XRxWs0XZOk)

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Post by: Malamute on April 17, 2016, 07:12:34 AM
Quote from: guitarheroandy on April 16, 2016, 04:00:31 PM
And of course, North West Frontier starring Kenneth Moore. Great little movie. Set in 1905, but still some great action shots of tribesmen attacking a fortified town and various attacks on a train.

Seconded, a marvellous film. :)
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Post by: von der Tann on April 17, 2016, 08:13:29 AM
The Man Who Would Be King (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_%28film%29)
click for wiki

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King.jpg)

Nevermind ... I didn't read the first post thoroughly enough. :'(

Title: Re: North-West Frontier - any inspirational movies out there?
Post by: Mad Guru on April 17, 2016, 11:37:38 AM
Not a movie, but if you can find a copy of the 1984 TV mini-series, "The Far Pavilions," (adapted from the novel by the same name) it might be worth watching.

I guess it's officially a cross-cultural romance drama, but the hero is an Anglo-Indian officer in the Guides, the story is largely set against the backdrop of the Second Afghan War, and it includes a recreation of the Afghan Army mutiny and assault on the British embassy at the Bala Hissar, resulting in the massacre of the Guides escort.  It strikes me that it may in fact be the only movie or TV dramatisation of any portion of the Second Afghan War ever done.
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Post by: NickNascati on April 17, 2016, 07:14:53 PM
"King of the Khyber Rifles", set more or less during the Indian Mutiny.  "Wee Willie Winkie", Shirley Temple and Caesar Romero.
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Post by: RichCitti on April 18, 2016, 03:22:10 PM
The first part of the Errol Flynn version of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Post by: Hammers on April 18, 2016, 06:20:34 PM
Quote from: guitarheroandy on April 16, 2016, 04:00:31 PM
And of course, North West Frontier starring Kenneth Moore. Great little movie. Set in 1905, but still some great action shots of tribesmen attacking a fortified town and various attacks on a train.

It is still a rather inspiring film. The colonialist attitudes is however rather thinly concealed, which is a bit jarring.
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Post by: Will Bailie on April 18, 2016, 06:30:45 PM
It's a bit of a stretch to call it a Northwest Frontier movie, but "High Road to China" included a brief stopover in Afghanistan, with Brian Blessed as the Pathan chief.
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Post by: Will Bailie on April 18, 2016, 06:39:12 PM
I shouldn't suggest this one, either, but the Flashman movie (Royal Flash) has a 'flash'back (sorry) to Flash Harry's exploits in the 1st Anglo-Afghan War.  Not particularly inspiring  :'(
Title: Re: North-West Frontier - any inspirational movies out there?
Post by: traveller on April 18, 2016, 06:50:20 PM
Thanks all!

Keep em coming!
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on April 18, 2016, 07:42:44 PM
One I recently re-watched after several years - "The Long Duel" starring Yul Brynner as a tribal chief, and Trevor Howard and Harry Andrews as British officers on both ends of the spectrum of colonialist reasoning.

Not too bad, and it's got a nice train ambush scene. None of the greats, though, either.

Addendum: Not North-West Frontier, but British India - "Bhowani Junction". Really liked that one.