
A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

0.0A documentary on the life of the youth in post-Independence India.
4.0Divided into three parts — The Awakening, The Struggle, and Freedom — this is a biographical film on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. Relying on Nehru's writings and speeches, the film traces the evolution of Nehru from his birth through his life. It also deals with the effect of history on Nehru and in turn his impact on the world.
0.0As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the sights and culture of a bygone India. Filmed between 1899-1947, and preserved in the BFI National Archive since then, these rare films capture many glimpses of life in India, from dances and markets, to hunts and pageantry.
0.0This documentary highlights the achievements of India in the political, economic, and international fields since she attained Independence. The framing of her Constitution, the integration of the States and the general elections, the rehabilitation of displaced persons, the river valley projects, and the setting up of a chain of National Laboratories are some of the achievements shown here.
0.0A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.
7.4A sex columnist gains popularity even while a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools is adopted by approximately a third of India’s states.
0.0Made to foster relations between the local residents of Rhymney, in south Wales, and the church.
0.0Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.
0.0Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.
0.0Varanasi is the Indian city where Hindus go to die. Stretching along the Ganges, Varanasi holds great spiritual significance because Hindu scriptutres say that anyone who dies there will attain moksha—liberation from the cycle of rebirth. Berlin-based director Dan Braga Ulvestad captures life and death in India’s heartland in this moving documentary filled with exquisite cinematic moments. By the River starts its narrative journey with the city’s “death hotels,” dedicated apartments where people wait to die, sometimes for decades, so they can be cremated on the banks of the Ganges.
0.0A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
8.8"Fascinating India" spreads an impressive panorama of India’s historical and contemporary world. The film presents the most important cities, royal residences and temple precincts. It follows the trail of different religious denominations, which have influenced India up to the present day. Simon Busch and Alexander Sass travelled for months through the north of the Indian subcontinent to discover what is hidden under India’s exotic and enigmatic surface, and to show what is rarely revealed to foreigners. The film deals with daily life in India. In Varanasi, people burn their dead to ashes. At the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious gathering of the world, 35 million pilgrims bathe in holy River Ganges. This is the first time India is presented in such an alluring and engaging fashion on screen.
0.0An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.
0.0Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
0.0Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
0.0Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
0.0Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.
0.0Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
