"It is deliciously ironic that an institution created to administer an empire through film should become the exemplary case of imperial cinema's dissolution. Tom Rice's account, which has the potential to be a touchstone for institutional and imperial histories, shows us how the British Colonial Film Unit was precisely such an organization."--Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space and Cinema at the End of Empire "Brings to light a treasure trove of archival sources and films in a synthetic perspective that clarifies lingering mysteries regarding the organization of the British colonial film units. This remarkable book adds significant complexity to our understanding of government-sponsored documentary cinema."--Peter J. Bloom, author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism