King of the Khyber Rifles, with Tyrone Power, previously a silent version (which I haven’t seen) with Victor McLaglen.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone, not the same movie as Das Glasperlenspiel cites, with which I am not familiar.
Wee Willie Winkie (1937) – Kipling, the Raj. On the other hand, it stars Shirley Temple.
And Cesar Romero!
I actually liked The Ghost and The Darkness, with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer which had British imperialism in East Africa as part of the backdrop.
Sanders of the River, starring Leslie Banks and Paul Robeson, who spent his life apologizing for the mass murderer Josef Stalin
You are right and I was wrong :smack: - I got “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer” (not “The Bengal Lancers”) and “Gunga Din” conflated. Shoulda checked IMDB instead of relying on a vague childhood memory.
Too bad! I was looking forward to seeing a new Cary Grant movie! 
The Sanders of the River link led to another interesting article: apparently Zoltan Korda made a career out of making British Empire movies.
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And Cesar Romero!
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And was directed by John Ford!
Another British Empire War movie directed by Ford, The Lost Patrol, is also worth a look. It’s set in WWI Iraq (then called Mesopotamia) and concerns a British patrol that’s stranded in a desert oasis that turns out to be surrounded by hundreds of hostile -and seemingly-invisible-Arabs.
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Although it’s not a war movie, David Lean’s A Passage to India is good companion piece to Jewel in the Crown.
Breaker Morant is excellent. One of my five favorite movies of all time. Run, do not walk, to get it and see it! Adventure, battles, wenching, poetry, intrigue, courtroom drama - man, it’s good.
Haven’t seen it, and I guess there’s not much military stuff in it, but I’ve heard White Mischief, about dissolute British colonials in Kenya in the early days of WWII, is pretty good: White Mischief - Wikipedia
Bernard Cornwell wrote a series of historic novels about a rifleman named Richard Sharpe. They were adapted into a long series of TV movies. Most of them were set during the Napoleonic Wars, but a couple of the books and movies were set in British India.
Sabu in “The Drum”
One of my favorites.
The OP mentions the “newer” version of The Four Feathers. I assume that’s the 2002 movie. I’d recommend checking out the 1977 version.
Spaceballs?
Or the 1921, 1929 or 1939 versions.
That’s negated due to the fact it was directed by film great John Ford.
The Sleeping Dictionary is surprising watchable. No war, but it has Jessica Alba and name all the other movies featuring British colonial Sarawak.
The Ghost and the Darkness, I guess.
*now I gotta go watch The Man Who Would Be King again.
I was going to say this too. The miniseries does the books justice, but the books are incredible!
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Wikipedia has a list of “British Empire war films” but it’s hardly all-inclusive. The Wind That Shakes the Barley gets a mention, which might be interesting as it has a different setting (Ireland) from what I usually think of when I think “British Empire” (Africa, India). Good film, too.
The previously-mentioned Lives of a Bengal Lancer is something I’ve been meaning to watch if it shows up on TV or if I stumble across it at the library. It was made while the Empire was still powerful (1935), possibly even at its peak, at least on paper. I heard somewhere that it was one of Hitler’s favourites-- he saw the British in India as a model of imperialism-- and Wikipedia has a quote to that effect.
If a guy was to try to watch even the better half of the war movies that are pertinent to the British Empire, he’d be busy for a long time. The Empire was still around for World War II, for one thing, and that has to be one of the most popular settings for movies.