India Movies

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

Vaastu Marabu documents the theory and practice of the Vaastu tradition of Indian art, architecture, craft and design. One of the foremost shilpis...

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Traveling the length and breadth of the country, S. Sukhdev constructs, a panoramic, non-narrated study of Indian life in the late 1960s. Shot across...

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

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

Military occasions around India and Pakistan, featuring the Khyber Pass, Srinagar, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.

The film chronicles four events that take place over a span of two days, all relating to superstition and spirituality in India. It aims to show the...

Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...

Rare amateur footage of East India.

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

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

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

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

From Jaipur to Agra and Calcutta is a wonderful trip, and Burton Holmes shows some of the quaintest and queerest sights in the world, among them the...

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...