Silent film from before the First World War reveals the empire in its majesty with great parades and ceremonies in London and India. Some of the earliest war footage tells the story of the South African war that gave the first signs that the empire was not all-powerful.
Begins with the pomp and circumstance of King Emperor George V's silver jubilee presented to the world using some of the earliest documentary colour film. The inter-war years were particularly significant for the British Empire. Great tides of historical change were in motion.
Tells the remarkable story of the actual end of the empire. That it was an empire that dissolved gracefully of its own free will rather than fall before invasion or bloody revolution.