India Movies

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

A young filmmaker backpacks solo across core India, guided by chance encounters that reveal the country beyond politics, nostalgia and a foreign gaze...

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...

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

'bonVoyage pour monVoyage', which literally means "best wishes for my trip," is an experimental animated travelogue where I depict my travel...

When the life of a troubled man is turned upside down because of his actions, the impending doom of his time begins to tick.

Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.

Beautiful stencil-coloured images of collecting (and eating) the fruit of India.

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

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...

The sloth bear is the oddest and wildest looking of all bears. With his shaggy fur, long, gummy jaws and cavernous mouth he presents a strange figure...

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

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

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

A look at the enduring relationship between the nomadic shepherds and the Indian wolf, who both defy the pressures of the modern world, in the south...

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.