Queen Victoria's Empire : The Scramble for Africa (2001)
Directed by Paul Burgess
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Politics & Government, World History |
Run Time - 57 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
Conclusion. Britons lead Europe's "Scramble for Africa" during the final two decades of Victoria's reign. Profiled here: Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon and Cecil Rhodes. Gordon, a "muscular" Christian, according to narrator Donald Sutherland, who died fighting Muslims in the Sudan in 1885 while Rhodes, a colossus in southern Africa in the 1890s sparked the Boer War, and was perhaps imperialism personified.
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queen [royalty], Britain, Victorian, colonialism, imperialism, reign
