An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father and family in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territory as she prepares for one of the most dangerous horse races in the world… bareback.
A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.
A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and the race is over, police officers run onto the infield. The crowd moves around.
Director S. Sukhdev traveled the length of India to gather footage for his impressionistic portrait of the country in the year 1967. The film produces the same effect on the viewers as a month-long visit to India, a sense of having seen everything and a sense of having seen nothing, both at the same time.
From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.
A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army.
Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.
Made 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.
Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.
A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.
Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.
Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.