India Movies

Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

A Dream Trip Across India Some kilometers from Bombay, the Indian megalopolis, lost on a hill of Bollywood, is the grandiose set of a vast temple...

Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...

The film starts in the early 1950s showing Sreedharan, the protagonist, as a very popular communist leader and trade union activist. He is forced to...

Unravel follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to...

Short documentary on India

Harishchandra is a 1951 Indian Nepali-language film based on the story of the legendary King Harischandra from Hindu mythology. This is credited as...

In 1968, a convoy set off to transport a Calandria, the 70-ton core of a Canadian nuclear reactor, to Rajasthan in India. Even the largest...

A documentary on sufism

A Rose, a Fisheye, and a Line investigates the associations that are commonly made between names, places, and identity. Born and raised in Canada,...

The story of Sita, a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic “Ramayana”.

King George V and Queen Mary hold ceremonial court in Delhi.

A double journey into Kerala in India. Ghedalia Tazartes dips himself into the sea of Indian traditions in Kerala, from Katakhali dance and music...

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.