Birds of Death (Original title)
Date: 06 July 1992 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: George Case
Synopsis: After the First World War, the newly formed RAF was used to bomb peasant villages as a cheap, quick, easy and casualty-free way to keep troublesome areas under control. Conveniently, it also tested new equipment and trained young airman. These included Sqdn-Ldr Kendall and Wing Commander Gale who describe the machine gunning and bombing of the Kurdish guerillas who did not wish to be part of the newly created Iraq. Many innocent men, women and children were killed in the targetted villages. Others died when they fled from their village to the mountains in winter. After this 'success' the technique was used elsewhere in the empire. In Waziristan in North East India defiant tribesmen were tieing up the army and bombing, preceded by warning leaflets was introduced. In 1937 tribemen retaliated, ambushing and massacring 80 servicemen. The RAF retaliated. Includes archive footage, filmed from the air, of bombing (Iraq or India?)
Subjects: Royal Air Force, Iraq, Great Britain, Colonial policy, Air raids, Kurdish people, British Raj
Series title: Secret History
TV Transmissions
Date: 06 July 1992Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:00Runtime: 52 mins Language: English - Colour and Black and White - Sound
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Description: Digital BetacamDuration: 51.56 minutesLine standard: 625Colour standard: PALTX date: 1992-07-06BFI identifier: C-1589581
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Date: 06 July 1992 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: George Case
Synopsis: After the First World War, the newly formed RAF was used to bomb peasant villages as a cheap, quick, easy and casualty-free way to keep troublesome areas under control. Conveniently, it also tested new equipment and trained young airman. These included Sqdn-Ldr Kendall and Wing Commander Gale who describe the machine gunning and bombing of the Kurdish guerillas who did not wish to be part of the newly created Iraq. Many innocent men, women and children were killed in the targetted villages. Others died when they fled from their village to the mountains in winter. After this 'success' the technique was used elsewhere in the empire. In Waziristan in North East India defiant tribesmen were tieing up the army and bombing, preceded by warning leaflets was introduced. In 1937 tribemen retaliated, ambushing and massacring 80 servicemen. The RAF retaliated. Includes archive footage, filmed from the air, of bombing (Iraq or India?)
Subjects: Royal Air Force, Iraq, Great Britain, Colonial policy, Air raids, Kurdish people, British Raj
Series title: Secret History
TV Transmissions
Date: 06 July 1992Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:00Runtime: 52 mins Language: English - Colour and Black and White - Sound
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(3)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: DVDLine standard: 625Colour standard: PALBFI identifier: C-1591848
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Digital materials(1)
Description: MKVDuration: 00:51:56 minutesBFI identifier: N-6889207
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Video materials(2)
Description: DVDLine standard: 625Colour standard: PALBFI identifier: C-1591848
Status: Viewing - Videotape can be requested for access
Description: Digital BetacamDuration: 51.56 minutesLine standard: 625Colour standard: PALTX date: 1992-07-06BFI identifier: C-1589581
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape