India Movies

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943.

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...

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

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...

A recently broken up couple meet on a railway station. Brought together by fate they decide to revisit their relationship and reflect on things left...

Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

Vaastu Marabu documents the theory and practice of the Vaastu tradition of Indian art, architecture, craft and design. One of the foremost shilpis...

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

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

In the peaceful hamlet of Dzuluk, a man is about to return to his wife of thirty four years, a marriage they have sustained mostly through letters.

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

The Jarawas live in the Andaman Islands on the Indian Ocean. The origin of the tribe is in Africa some 70,000 years back. They have lived in almost...

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.