India Movies

A rural village never wanted to be a city’s landfill or a distant blur in Reels but rather home to new imaginations. Bringing Down a Mountain...

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

On the banks of the Cauvery River in southern India, wildlife filmmaker Sugandhi Gadadhar studies the behavior of Asian otters. On one of the...

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

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

Rare amateur footage of East India.

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

Kosa is a young boy who lives with his family in the forest heartlands of India. One day, he is picked up by the police. The charge? Kosa’s...

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

A reflection on the life and death of India's second Prime Minister, Lal Bhahadur Shashtri.

An evocative and unsettling journey through christian and also deeply communist Kerala. Amidst red flags and altar boys, between the sea and the...

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

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described...

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives...

This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in...

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

Mark Tully examines the conflict between India and Pakistan over the disputed province, Jammu and Kashmir, and how the political affairs between...