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...

Behind the scenes at a Chennai teachers training college.

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

The life of the people of the Naga Hills, Assam, including sports activities and tribal ceremonies, presented within a fictional framework.

　　Originally created as an installation for the third Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale this film is a gripping diary and...

Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.

Basic dignity of queer people in India is under attack, yet again. The scorching IPC Section 377 is re-unleashed to police to criminalise “gay...

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...

Rare amateur footage of East India.

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

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.

In 2094, a ruthless dictator controls India with an iron fist. Trapped in a militarised zone, a group of revolutionaries must escape before the...

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

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...

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

India - unique in its diversity and breathtakingly beautiful. The subcontinent is characterized by scenic, cultural and ethnic diversity. After...

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

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...