DVD Review: The British Empire in Color - Page 5

With Hong Kong’s reversion to China in 1997, the cycle was complete. England had lost all of her colonies, all in the 20th century, with the majority of them gone in just 20 years. Meanwhile, here it is some sixty years later, and India and Pakistan are still fighting over Kashmir. Mugabe, with his Hitler-wannabe mustache is still repressing Rhodesia, whites are undergoing wholesale massacre by his army, and their land is being confiscated. By 2002, 95% of white land had been seized.

While the grandeur, and pomp and circumstance of British colonialism were beautiful to those in power, it left a wake of death, starvation, and destruction, one from which the world has yet to recover.

There is an additional 26-minute segment that describes the making of the documentary, including its research and developmental stages.

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    Rare footage and eyewitness accounts chronicle the decline of a once vast power The British Empire brought education, technology, law, and democracy to the four corners of the globe. ...

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