凯伦（梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰）是一个爱慕虚荣的富家女，为了得到一个男爵夫人的称号她离开故土丹麦远嫁东非肯尼亚，然而男爵夫人的称号并没有给凯伦带来美满的婚姻生活。幸运的是在那片广袤的土地上，凯伦可以经常外出打猎、探险，她渐渐的爱上了这片神奇的土地。在一次打猎遇险时，凯伦邂逅了年青的英国贵族邓尼斯（罗伯特·雷德福 Robert Redford 饰）。在遭遇婚姻的破裂和丈夫出走之后，凯伦独立承担起经营庄园的任务，在劳动的过程中，凯伦渐渐的与种植园里的仆人们产生了深厚友谊，而她与邓尼斯的关系似乎也有了进展。然尔命运之神并没有从此让凯伦一帆风顺，一次大火让她不得不出卖庄园从而缓解经济的拮据，后来邓尼斯驾机意外身亡又一次给了她沉重的打击。在经历了生命的磨炼之后，凯伦最终告别了那片她洒下青春和热情的土地……
该片在1986年的第58届奥斯卡上荣获了包括最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳改编剧本在内6项大奖。
故事发生在1893年，英国军队入侵印度，驻扎在一个干旱连连的小村庄里。除了要面对尴尬的收成和糟糕的气候，村民们还得应付沉重的苛捐杂税，一时间生活苦不堪言。 罗素 是英国军队的统领，某日，他找到了村里的青年拉凡，提出了要同他比赛的要求。罗素承诺拉凡，如果拉凡的球队能够赢得比赛，那么他将在村庄中实行为期三年的免税政策，但是，如果拉凡没能够获胜，那么村民们缴纳的税款就会增加三倍。热血沸腾的拉凡接受了罗素的挑战，然而却遭到了村民们的强烈反对，没有人愿意加入他的球队。这时，罗素的妹妹伊莉莎白 看不惯哥哥恃强凌弱，加入了拉凡一方，教他们打球，获得了强力助攻的拉凡队能否获得最终的胜利呢？
16世纪，英国海盗首领莫根船长受到查理国王的赦免，并被任命为牙买加总督，艺高胆大、聪明英俊的年轻人沃林追随莫根前往。然而，莫根原来的部下，狡猾、凶狠的里奇船长拒绝服从莫根的指挥，继续在海上为非作歹，抢劫商船。为了消灭海盗，沃林率船出海，途中不期与里奇的“黑天鹅号”等三条船遭遇。面对险境，沃林慌称前来投奔里奇。经过机智周旋和激烈搏斗，里奇受到了惩罚，“黑天鹅号”彻底覆灭。而贵族小姐玛格丽特对沃林由厌恶到敬重，直至爱慕，引出了一个曲折离奇的爱情故事。央视1989年播出时译名为《黑天鹅的覆灭》。
导致英国卷入克里米亚战争对抗俄罗斯的一系列事件的编年史，导致了对塞瓦斯托波尔的围困和1854年10月25日巴拉克拉瓦激烈的战斗，最终以英国轻骑兵的英勇但几乎灾难性的冲锋结束，他们冲向了一个小山谷里的俄罗斯炮兵阵地，结果由于英国指挥官的错误判断和草率规划导致该骑兵队几乎被摧毁。
内容讲述1841年英国商人舒狄克(大班)带领舰队，前往中国通商，以鸦片换取茶叶，丝绸及翠玉，煞而遭受满清朝廷禁制，舒舰长于是带领舰队南下占领香港，开辟成为商港，并与其它商人展开勾心斗角的竞赛。但人算不如天算，一场飓风令人他的命运急剧扭转。（豆瓣电影） 这部电影是以英国赢得第一次鸦片战争和占领香港之后开始的。尽管当时的香港岛大部分无人居住，地形也不友好，但它拥有一个大型港口，英国政府和各贸易公司都认为，这将有助于他们在中国大陆进行贸易和商品进出口，这是一个利润丰厚的市场。
在1923年的西非，法官罗哈利和强生，深感民间疾苦，决心为居民修筑一条百里大道。因经费不足先动用其他经费，但被财政官员丁大人查觉，而失去职位转行在警官的商店偷钱并误杀警官，罗哈利受命调查并查出凶手是强生。在正义与友情间，他面临抉择。
影片根据小说改编。描写英国现代姑娘安妮出于对姨祖母奥莉维亚在印度生活往事的好奇，到印度进行实地寻访的经历，把两个不同时代各自独立成章而相互关关联的故事交织在一起。影片以交替的闪回镜头，分别叙述了奥莉维亚在20世纪20年代在殖民地印度的经历，成为印度王子的情妇的故事；安妮踏看姨祖母的足迹来到印度后，也和—位英俊的印度人英德产生感情。
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers, symbols of cowardice.
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Written by Greg Bruno
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. The bitter struggle between Arab and Jew for control of the Holy Land has caused untold suffering in the Middle East for generations. It is often claimed that the crisis originated with Jewish emigration to Palestine and the foundation of the state of Israel. Yet the roots of the conflict are to be found much earlier – in British double-dealing during the First World War. This is a story of intrigue among rival empires; of misguided strategies; and of how conflicting promises to Arab and Jew created a legacy of bloodshed which determined the fate of the Middle East.
A short history of the island is followed by views of the countryside and people in town and village.
Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.