1.

Empire of the Sun

The movie is about a boy who was separated from his parents while Japan attacked China
during the 1930s, named Jamie Graham. The movie progresses around the boy as he was first
separated from his parents until the end where he had finally met his parents again after
experiencing a living hell in between. The misery he had been through includes hunger,
agony, and psychologically-affecting experiences.

The setting of the movie feels real. The audience can directly feel what was happening during
the war through the scenes that are shown. From the movie, we can also learn about history
(for those who are unaware about Japan's invasion of China), so that the movie is counted as
an educational movie.

Despite Jim's miserable fate, there are many moral values within the movie that the audience
can learn. One of the moral values is about friendship. Jim's friendship with the Japanese
youth is pure. Even though most of Japanese army threaten Jim and the refugees, Jim still
appreciated the Japanese youth help (a mango for Jim). Sadly, the Americans think that Jim
was in danger so they shot the Japanese youth.

For our group, Jim is the real survivor. He often helps refugees within the camp to finish their
works and helps the Doctor to heal the refugees, too. He struggles for his own life, especially
his youth. He works hard to get out of the camp and continues his life better. It is such a
heavy journey for him, as a British youth who lives in the middle of the war.
British Empire’s role in the movie:
During the 1930s, Britain exercised an informal empire in China based on trading interest and
investment. Yet, Japan posed a serious threat to British interest in China. Until 1940, the
Japanese tolerated the presence European interests. But in 1941, they invaded Hong Kong
and the international concession at Shanghai, ending Britain’s informal Chinese empire.

2. Sleeping Dictionary

This movie is set in Serawak, Malaysia. John Trusscott is an English man who wanders into
the interior of Serawak to continue his father’s dream of educating the locals (missionary) for
Iban Dayak Tribe. In Serawak, he met Henry Bullard who has been living there for a long
time. Due to Henry’s power, Trusscott was given a home, a chef, and also a “Sleeping
Dictionary”.
Sleeping Dictionary means that a girl from local tribe (in this case Iban Tribe) choose a
foreign man to help them with learning the Iban language. However, this tradition makes a
several problem for John Trusscott. First of all, he is not able to marry the Sleeping
Dictionary girl.After seeing the things that happen to the locals, Trusscott immideaty help the
locals by killing those British man.
There is also a dillema from John because Henry suggest him to marry his daughter Cecil. He
was sent off from Serawak to London to marry her after knowing that he does not have a
choice but to let the Sleeping Dictionary girl (Selima) marry his friend Belansai.At the end of
the story, he choose to pursue his the one and only that he loves the most, Selima. They make
a new life in Dutchman Borneo.
British Empire role in the movie:
In this movie, we learn that British are trying to control the mining site in Serawak. During
1930s, British Empire still extended vast areas of the globe to become a part of British
Empire. From historical side, it is known that the British Empire colonialized for the matter
of power.
3. The Passage of India

The movie took place in Chandrapore, India at the early 20th century during British
colonialism upon India at that time. The movie focuses on the transformation of India
between British colonials and the native locals. While exploring the land of India, Adela
Quested, a tourist from Great Britain, accusing an Indian doctor (Aziz Ahmed) of rape. The
incident creates a huge tension between the colonies and the locals that drives India to claim
their independence. The relation between the movie and the British invasion is that the
British occupation is existed in the movie. British invaded India to fulfill the spices demand
that was so high at that time. There was also a huge social discrepancy between the locals and
the colonies.

4. Chariot of Fire
Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell were two runners with two very different backgrounds
and characters. Abrahams is a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania who
experienced racism and Lidell was a devout Christian who was born in China of Scottish
missionary parents. Abrahams ran to prove the British people that he did have an expertise,
that he was good at something, thus fighting the anti-semitism applied in his campus.
Meanwhile, Lidell competes because he believed that running was his way of glorifying
God's name, that his skills was a gift from God and when he ran, he can feel His pleasure.
Abrahams was a very determined young man. With that determination he was succeeded in
overcoming the anti-semitsm and class bias. He was a fighter and he will stop at nothing to
achieved the goal he had set for himself. On the other hand, Lidell was a man who valued and
honor his beliefs. That being said, He only ran because he believe that god made him a
purpose by giving him a gift of speed. He was determined too, but his purpose was not only
to win a competition and what he was doing was not only for himself.

'Chariots of Fire'' is a celebration of a number of things, not the least of which is a kind of
highly committed, emotionally involving drama that knows the difference between sentiment
and sentimentality. It also introduces more a than half-dozen talents, mostly English, and
celebrates the British film industry, which, with ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and now
''Chariots of Fire,'' is quite evidently in top form once again.
''Chariots of Fire'' is the story of the 1924 Olympics in France, particularly of two British
track stars who helped win glory for God, King and country - one furiously competitive
young English Jew, a Cambridge stude nt named Harold Abrahams, and one dedicated young
Church of Scotland preacher, Eric Liddell, who says at one point to explain why he runs,
''God made me devout and - He made me fast.''

In the way that Eric Liddell runs to honor God, Harold Abrahams, the son of a Lithuanian
immigrant who made a fortune in England, runs to become visible in the Anglo-Saxon
society that pretends not to notice his Jewishness. They are splendid roles, splendidly
performed by, respectively, Ian Charleson and Ben Cross.

Though ''Chariots of Fire'' is mostly about the very privileged, it is so carefully balanced that
it doesn't deny the realities of lives less privileged. It's an exceptional film, about some
exceptional people.

Chariots of Fire, British dramatic film, released in 1981, that tells the true story of two
British runners who brought glory to their country in the Olympic Games of 1924 in Paris.
The film won both the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for best picture and also
garnered the Golden Globe Award for best foreign movie.

The film begins at the 1978 memorial of the runner Harold Abrahams. It then moves back to
1919 when Abrahams (played by Ben Cross), the son of a wealthy Jewish financier, arrives at
the University of Cambridge. He becomes the first sprinter to complete the Trinity Great
Court Run—to circle the courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12, beginning at
the first chime. In addition to winning national running contests, Abrahams becomes involved
with a Gilbert and Sullivan company and falls in love with a soprano, Sybil (Alice Krige). In
Scotland, Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), the son of Scottish missionaries, also engages in
running competitions. Though his sister, Jennie (Cheryl Campbell), fears that running will
distract him from missionary activity, Liddell feels that his victories glorify God. Eventually,
Abrahams and Liddell meet in a British open race, and Liddell wins. The driven Abrahams is
crushed at his defeat, but noted trainer Sam Mussabini (Ian Holm), offers to take him on,
telling him that he can teach him to run faster than Liddell. The Cambridge college masters
(Sir John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson) think accepting professional coaching is
ungentlemanly, but Abrahams sees their objections as anti-Semitic and class-based in nature.

Liddell, Abrahams, and the Cambridge runners Lord Andrew Lindsay (Nigel Havers),
Aubrey Montague (Nicholas Farrell), and Henry Stallard (Daniel Gerroll) are chosen for the
British Olympic team. As they depart for Paris, Liddell learns that the 100-metre heat in
which he was to compete is to be held on Sunday. His religious convictions will not allow
him to compete on the Sabbath, and he resists the arguments made by the Prince of Wales
(David Yelland) and the British Olympic Committee. However, Lindsay offers to yield his
place in the 400-metre race, scheduled for the following Thursday, to Liddell, and he accepts.
At the Games, American runner Charles Paddock (Dennis Christopher) easily outpaces
Abrahams to win the 200-metre race, but Abrahams is triumphant in the 100-metre contest,
winning the gold medal. Liddell is not expected to do well at the 400-metre distance, but he
nonetheless goes on to take gold. After the team returns home, Abrahams reunites with Sybil,
and Liddell takes up missionary work in China.

5. In the Name of the Father

Gerry Conlon is a petty criminal. As the film opens he is busy stealing the lead from the roofs
of houses in the middle of Belfast. His endeavors are interrupted by the arrival of security
forces who have got the area surrounded to prevent his fleeing the scene. A riot breaks out
and this puts Gerry offside with the high up members of the IRA who don't like anyone
connected to them opening themselves up to capture and investigation. Luckily for Gerry, his
father Giuseppe is well ingratiated with the IRA and manages to save him from likely
punishment. He packs Gerry off to London where he has an aunt he can stay with, but Gerry
wants no part of this plan and instead finds a squat in an abandoned house where it will be far
easier to enjoy the free ice of the early 1970s and to smoke as much dope as possible.
On the evening that changes his life, two things happen. Gerry procures a prostitute and
manipulates an invitation back to her flat, stealing the £700 he finds there and then leaving.
He stops briefly to chat with a man who is sitting in the park. The second hung that happens
is an explosion caused by a bombing in a pub in the upmarket city of Guildford, about an
hour south of London. Four off-duty soldiers are killed by the explosion, and one civilian
member of the public is murdered too. Sixty five people are seriously wounded and the
psyche of the city is irreparably damaged.
With the stolen cash in his pocket, Gerry goes home to Belfast to show off his riches. In his
absence one of the other people living in the London squat reports him to authorities as a
likely pub bomber; the Conlon home in Belfast is raided by the Royal Ulster Constabulary
and the British Army. Gerry is arrested and flown back to England along with his friend Paul
Hill. They are interrogated for days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. The police bully
and threaten and eventually both men break and confess. Hearing about the confession,
Giuseppe Conlon travels to London to try to help his son and is arrested at his sister's house.
She is also arrested and both are tried and subsequently convicted of supporting the bombing,
traces of nitroglycerin that were found in the home used as evidence. They are known in the
press as the Maguire Seven. Gerry, Paul Hill and the other two members of the Guildford
Four are also convicted of the bombing and given long sentences.
Bitter and angry, blaming his father for his situation, Gerry has an epiphany one day when he
learns that the man who really masterminded the bombing is also imprisoned in the same jail.
The man starts a prison riot and sets a guard on fire. Gerry saves the guard's life by covering
him with a blanket and putting out the flames.
After his father dies in jail, Gerry becomes the leader of the fight for justice. He gains
publicity and support and the Free The Four movement gains enough momentum to grab the
attention of a lawyer called Gareth Peirce. She is campaigning to clear the Maguire Seven but
when she gains access to Gerry's file she discovers a document that is marked "Not to be
shown to the Defence". She triumphantly produces the annotated file during the appeal and
states that as the police have lied and withheld evidence the convictions should be
overturned. The convictions are quashed and the Guildford Four are released. In talking to the
media after his release, Gerry proclaims his father's innocence as well as his own - perhaps
even more than his own. The Maguire Seven were subsequently exonerated but the Guildford
Four were not; the police were acquitted of any wrongdoing during the investigation.

The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction

 In the beginning of the book, the British Empire was portrayed as “wicked” empire
due to the colonialism in the past. In 20 th century, French, German, and Italian cartoonists
represented Britain as a serpent constricting globe, a hideous claw-like hand grasping it, and
as an obese John Bull. Though Britain was portrayed as wicked, but it could prove that it
could prove its power to rule territories. Behind British Empire power, it has main
classifications within the empire, they are: The ‘White’ Dominions, The Indian Empire, The
Colonial Empire, Condominiums, Treaty-based Client States, League of Nations ‘mandates’,
and The Informal Empire.
The key characteristics explored in this chapter include the Empire’s
economic status, its cultural dimensions, its existence as a system of knowledge and
as a racial construction, its operation as a strategic alliance, its impact on built
environments and the natural world, and the role played by anti-colonial opposition
in its definition:
An economic bloc and field of opportunity, A cultural universe, Empire and
British culture, A system of knowledge,A racial construction, A strategic and
military system, A transformer of the natural world and the built environment, A
constantly contested realm.

Monarchs interested in progress and sponsoring initiatives such as the Royal

Observatory (1675). They encouraged advances in science, technology, and discovery.
Catholic nations being fear and want to prevent them from using its resources to defeat the
Protestant kingdoms. Six major wars were fought with European rivals between 1689 and
1815. The proceeds from the sale of the slaves were used to buy slave-produced cash crops
(cotton, sugar, tobacco, rum), then loaded into the slave ships and sent to Britain for sale, or
for re-export to other European markets.
The British imperial at some point had to rebuild their economy by shepherding
emerging non-white nation-states into a post-imperial but still British-led club. This method
was known as the Commonwealth. It was hoped that Commonwealth would not only be a
good answer to charges of ‘colonialism’, but also a useful, British-directed instrument of
Western influence in the fight against communism. They would continue to be able to nudge
and influence a country.
In writings that recorded history, it is almost impossible to not see the British in the
history, as they’ve done so much in the past, one including colonizing many places on the
globe.The causes of British expansion were answered with two possible chances. Either it
was for the sake of investment of capital overseas, or they were driven by strategic needs.

The World System and Colonialism

The main idea of capitalism is to sell as much as they can in order to make a larger
profit. The key claim of world-system theory is that in identifiable social system, based on
wealth and power differentials, extends beyond individual countries. World capitalism has
political and economic specialization at the core, semiperiphery, and periphery.
Columbus’s voyages opened routes for major trades. Seventeenth-century plantation
economies in the Caribbean and Brazil were based on sugar. In the next century, cotton
started to appear in the southeastern states.
The industrial revolution that happened in England in 1950 quickened the separation
of worker from the means of production. The divisions that were created were bourgeoisie
and the proletariat.
Imperialism is the policy of extending the rule of a nation or an empire over other
nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies. Meanwhile, colonialism is the domination
of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time. the colonialism in
Europe had two phases. First, it was in 1492 until 1825. The second phase is 1850 until 1950.
Economic development also has philosophy that provides justification for outsiders.
The justification is to guide native people toward particular goal.
Communism is a social system where properties are owned by everyone, not to a
specific person. Communism indicated a political movement and doctrine that had a goal to
overthrow capitalism and to establish a form of communism such as that which prevailed in
the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991.
By 1900, the US had become a core nation. Mass production had given rise to a
culture, now global in scope, that valued acquisitiveness and conspicuous consumption.