British Empire 20th Century in Colour: Geographical Height and End (Highlights)
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VIDEO TIME TABLE OF CONTENTS (Click on Time Links to Jump to Category) British Empire 1900s-1940s: 1:04 - British Isles 1926 (Life, Imperial Unity, Economy, General Strike) 1:26 - British India 1911: (Delhi Durbar & Indian Terrorism) 5:05 - Indian Nationalism: (British Investment, Civil Service, & Princely States) 7:16 - Holy Land 1920s: (British Palestine, Jerusalem, & Jewish Immigration) 11:22 - British India 1930s: (Life, Gandhi, & Changing British Attitudes) 12:52 - Holy Land 1930s: (Arab Revolt, Jewish Forts, & British Intervention) 15:23 - Britain 1936-8: (King George VI, Empire Day, & Empire Exhibition) 18:03 - Holy Land 1938: (Britain's Change of Position) 20:37 - Dominion of Canada 1939: (British Royal Courting of North America) 22:37 - World War II (Dominion of Australia, Empire Loyalty, USA, & Victory) 24:30 - British India 1940s (British Promise, Indian Divisions, & Partition) 36:19 - British Leave India (Last Departure) 46:45 - Holy Land 1940s (Jewish Revolt,Terrorism, Israel, Israeli-Arab War) 47:46 UK Isles & White Dominions 1950s: 54:27 - Queen Elizabeth II (Coronation, Common Wealth, & Post War Life) 54:49 - British Immigration to White Common Wealth (Canada & Australasia) 57:53 - Malian Emergency (Communist Insurgents & Empire Intervention) 1:03:44 - White Australia (Australian Justification & Responses) 1:06:23 - Canada (Independence and Migration Northward) 1:07:36 British Africa 1950s-60s: 1:08:04 - War Ships of the Line in Mediterranean (Queen Tours Empire) 1:08:26 - Southern Rhodesia (White Settlers, History, and Holdings) 1:09:21 - East Africa (Uganda & Kenya) 1:10:42 - Terror in Kenya (Kenyatta, Mau Mau Cult, & White Settlers) 1:14:48 - End of Malian Emergency (British Victory and Malian Independence) 1:24:21 - African Impatience (Nigeria, Gold Cost, & Britain's African Policy) 1:25:30 - Suez (Canal Falls, African Independence, & Imperial Might Passes) 1:27:34 End of the Empire and Legacy 1960s-2000s: 1:32:53 - Fall of Rhodesia 1960s-70s (UDI, Bush War, & Mugabe) 1:33:15 - Colored Immigration to Britain (Jobs, White Feelings, & Conflict) 1:38:26 - Handover of Hong Kong 1997 (Lights of the Empire Extinguished) 1:44:23 - Conclusions of the Empire (Contributions, Faults, & Aftermath) 1:45:24 Link to an Alternative View to Multiculturalism and the Future of Britain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np4TKwGt6QQ
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Fucking Brit vermins.. Opportunist bastards were shown the door and they walked out of India peacefully, when they saw that their arses would be on fire there on..
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this is historic momant britsh people
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Really good documentary :) I'm a Canadian and my boyfriend is a Kiwi and we both enjoyed it. Something that both of our countries can both relate to.
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the opening statement is quite frankly ridiculous Britain was not the most powerful nation on Earth for 200 years it benefited from European wars, backing one side over another.... ruling over people of colour without the means to fight back is not something to boast about. Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Europe defeating other powerful Nations in front of him .....Britain was never capable of defeating France alone or Russia... sailing across the the seven seas planting a flag and saying this is ours as unfortunate native stood and looked without the means to repel..... prison took the American colonies off the Dutch only to lose them over a century later while maintaining Canada a vast emptiness with scattered indigenous people's ...same goes for Australia it already had a trading foothold in India but only in trade in the early part of the 19th century Britain start to get involved in India politically over few decades conquered India and money from taxing the natives and forcing them not to grow food but cash crops. ..... bringing misery to tens of millions..... it was only near the end of the 19 century it stock it's fangs into the heart of Africa sucking at its lifeblood so the British working class can build palatial houses across England..... yes Britain benefited and yes it was powerful ...not true it's own Enterprise but through the Misery of millions ,after it's Empire collapsed Britain became the poor man of Europe and joined the European Union, cap in hand... dismantled the Old heavy and manufacturing Industries only to make money from building a casino which is called London financial centre.... Margaret Thatcher once called it monetarism ...making money from money and now that brexit is upon them Parliament is starting to s***......let's see what happens next......I think Britain will try to drive a wedge and split the European Union in order to bring about free trade..... I personally hope they fail.
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Like any empire, Britain sucked for everybody in the world except for the British elite and middle class. Bloody, psychotic monarchs they're all so ignorantly proud of. Impressment of sailors, genocide, crushing their own disadvantaged. Yeah, glorious
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Filthy brits and the ghastly messes they make while destroying heritages that should have been preserved.
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fucking shame on the britsh EST fuck our british EST fucking rott in fucking hell
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Just lmao at all those brits in the comment section jerking off to this video, whising their country was still relevant
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Owen Jones Because efficiency is a volunteer partnership between labor and capital in a capitalistic society. The difference between our two societies are obvious. We Americans were positioned to respond to evil in the world. Your leadership, including your German King, was busy appeasing Hitler. Your PM was giving away the Skoda munitions works. Is this the negotiating posture of thee world power?
Your leadership sold technology, material and gave training to Japan, for the express purpose of frustrating our "Open Door Policy." You know, the kind where we don't bomb China to make them take drugs. We lost most of the seventh fleet that day. If it was England, they would not be able to put another fleet together for at least a decade. We did it in 1.5 Years. If you can't acknowledge that, the rest of what I am going to tell you will have little meaning.
During Lincoln's time, you guys were the most powerful narco state in the world. Tying up military resources to execute state sponsored drug dealing. Lincoln, wether you can understand it or not, set you free as well. No longer would European Banks dominate world affairs. This was an economic nuclear bomb that freed your people as well. wether you can understand why is for your discovery.
England or Great Britain or whatever you prefer, tried to convince France to attack us at the outset of the civil war. The duplicitous nature of England was driven by the fear of us becoming the most powerful country on Earth. A fact realized when England sent commissioners (Not Trent) to see the Industrial might of the United States. Lincoln was telling them "one war at a time." Seems Lincoln didn't give a fuck about your belief in England as a world power. England's ball sack began to shrink. England was taking a page from its old playbook by using privateers. Seems they needed plausible deniability. England wound up paying for its BS to the tune of 15 million dollars. I wonder if they paid with drug money. At any rate, it was equal to the amount of the Louisiana Purchase. Thank you for that. Has England ever paid for their short sighted incursions before? Nope.
By the way, you guys finally paid us back for WW2 recently. "Thank you, please, come again." (Apu-Simpsons)
I said we dominated about 150 years of the two centuries you mentioned. So your mentioning early nineteenth century is not my area of contest.
Just be glad Winston Churchill was half American. You guys held it against him because he was half American. He wasn't a proper English Gentleman. Well, his sagacity and pride in being half American was England's way of saying "Help us America."
The outrageous actions against America all this time and now your England was writhing for help and your trying to convince about England's complete dominance during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Hopkins told Churchill, on behalf of Roosevelt, that the U.S. wasn't interested in a military strategy intended to prop up the disintegrating colonial system. Churchill looked at him and said to Hopkins, "We are going to give you a title. Lord root of the matter."
Your empire was sick with inefficiency. You grew soft. Your national economy of scale was rotten with oppressed labor. A new dynamic, the American Constitution was causing your empire all kinds of problems.
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"Brit Empire = entertaining the useful figureheads of the various food groups"
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A highly educational documentary on the demise of a great empire that had brought civilization and culture to many savage corners of the world (just consider the fight against slavery (an endemic practice) in Africa or the crackdown on thugees and widow-burners in India, and introducing the rule of law and education all over the world while carrying out major infrastructural investments.. The symbolic question of "what have the Romans ever done for us" has nowhere else been more relevant than in former British colonies, even if the Empire has left some undeniable oppressive legacy, which needs to be admitted.
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very nice documentary. i like it very much. thanks for posting
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The comment section here is has a higher degree of saltiness than the Dead Sea.
Like your respective cultures wouldn't leap at the chance to rule the world like Britain did in the 19th and 20th centuries. It's great sitting on the moral high ground after the fact. Instead here you are, years later, moaning. Get good or get over it -
It's difficult to see the british-its are still living in the nostalgia of a long gone empire.
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bad editing
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Another flatscreen crime
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Where can I find this song that starts in the beginning?
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The British Empire ended because World War II had made Britain lay in ruins and it could no longer afford to uphold the colonial economy and mercantilism that made it prosper in the 19th and early 20th century. Likewise, world affairs and the balance of power shifted changed after World War II as the USA and the USSR emerged as the indisputable superpowers in the Cold War era. French and British colonies began seeking independence. I am sorry to tell the British this. But your empire is gone and it is never coming back.
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Given what has happened with the influx of Muslims in Europe, I have little hope that there is a bright future for multi-culturalism.
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