India Movies

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

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...

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

'bonVoyage pour monVoyage', which literally means "best wishes for my trip," is an experimental animated travelogue where I depict my travel...

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

India - unique in its diversity and breathtakingly beautiful. The subcontinent is characterized by scenic, cultural and ethnic diversity. After...

The sloth bear is the oddest and wildest looking of all bears. With his shaggy fur, long, gummy jaws and cavernous mouth he presents a strange figure...

The film show the day to day running of the Titaghur Jute company, which is in Bengal on the banks of the river Hooghly. Opening shot 360 degree pan...

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

A look at the enduring relationship between the nomadic shepherds and the Indian wolf, who both defy the pressures of the modern world, in the south...

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta.

A man searching for his missing son turns to a DNA tracing company for help. But as the search begins, it becomes clear that he may not be telling...

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.