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A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.

Follows Bernardo Bertolucci's three-part documentary for Italian oil company ENI that aired in 1967, made after his breakthrough film Before the Revolution. Presented in "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".

Explorers Martin and Osa Johnson set out an an expedition that takes them to Hawaii, the little explored South Pacific regions of the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides Islands, Australia, then through the Suez Canal, down the Nile River to Tanganyika, a safari to the Belgian Congo--where they observe a large variety of wildlife and meet up with a tribe of pygmies--and finally wind up in Uganda.

Examples of the British Empire: Suez, Malta, and Gibraltar.

Newsreel in five segments showing a meeting between FDR and the leaders of three Middle Eastern allies, an honor ceremony for Allied soldiers in liberated Rome, a major train wreck in Pennsylvania, American soldiers on leave in liberated Paris, and the successful taking of a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines by combined American forces and Filipino guerrillas.

Lowell Thomas, shortly after Italy invaded Libya, takes a look at the political importance of the country, especially the mobile Lybian Army Corps which Benito Mussolini is building up. The threat of a well-mobilized army in Lybia near its border, which is only a short distance from the Suez Canal, is commented on by Thomas. The contrast between the Lybian capital, Tripoli, and the stark primitive conditions of the rest of the country is also highlighted.

A documentary about a Swedish diving club's expedition to the Red Sea in 1955.

Almost everyone of us stood once at the port watching the ships. You see cruise liners, bulk freighters, oil tankers and container vessels. They all stay short in the port before they sail again and disappear as a small dot on the horizon. But what happens thereafter? Ships are designed to spend more time on sea than in port. But how does life on a modern container vessel looks like, when your workplace become your home for several weeks? Within the documentary film "Steel Solitude" Gabriel Pielke joins the crew of one of the largest container vessels on a journey from Europe to China and back. During this 56 days at sea he experience the solitude of modern seafaring and the gradualness of traveling. This film takes you on a never ending journey between east and west and abducts you in a foreign world beyond the horizon.

Journey of the Grand Lady: Suez Canal. A trip through the dessert for a swim. Dusty squad ride. Egg dyeing. Pole position in the convoy through the Canal. Dancers Christian and Silvia perform on stage.