India Movies

Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.

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 Kumbh Mela is a great roving Hindu spiritual festival that has moved around India for more than four thousand years, erecting temporary cities...

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

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

Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.

In 2094, a ruthless dictator controls India with an iron fist. Trapped in a militarised zone, a group of revolutionaries must escape before the...

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

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

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.

Great herds of Asian elephants once roamed from Baghdad to Beijing. Now only remnants of these once mighty herds survive, protected today by the...

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

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...

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

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