India Movies

"As you loll comfortably on the deck, your steamer approaches the Suez Canal and you enter this interesting stretch of water at Port Said. You land...

Accompany a couple on their visit to a local wildlife park.

During social and political turmoil, what is the manifestation of divine intervention? How do the gods and goddesses act in the volatility of the...

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...

In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this laborious work, which has hardly changed since the...

Documenting the production of kerosene tins and their reuse in rural India, this early short by Bimal Roy observes industrial labor and everyday life...

Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.

As the months pass through her, Mai gives us a glimpse into old age that explores between being abandoned and being belonged, passing the time and...

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

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

Animated documentary which uses the voices and drawings of a group of children who live in a clinic in India. The guitar, the dances, a trip out to...

Indian superspy Lady James Bond is assigned to protect a professor and his top-secret research.

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

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

Gods in Shackles is an expose revealing the dark side of the Indian state of Kerala's glamorous cultural festivities that exploit temple elephants...

A double journey into Kerala in India. Ghedalia Tazartes dips himself into the sea of Indian traditions in Kerala, from Katakhali dance and music...

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

A young woman researches the hidden story of Indian soldiers who came to fight in France and Belgium during the World War I. The presence of these...

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