India Movies

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with...

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

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

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

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...

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.

Behind the scenes at a Chennai teachers training college.

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

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

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

A casual conversation between two friends on love and relationship turns in to much wider spectrums of god, religion and politics.

A Bangladeshi American undertakes a journey to learn about the liberation war in his native country, traveling there for the first time in nearly two...

The story of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists' Mission (1841-1969) to the Khasi Hills in north-east India, written and presented by Welsh poet Nigel...

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

In a humid summer blackout in Ghaziabad, two impoverished cousins struggle through one sweltering night with their grandfather’s corpse, as...

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.

The film show the day to day running of the Titaghur Jute company, which is in Bengal on the banks of the river Hooghly. Opening shot 360 degree pan...

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.

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