India Movies

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

A film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starving at a railway station in Delhi. The police took...

Determined to carve out a better future for herself, teenage Gouri leaves behind a life of prostitution that was forced upon her at a young age and...

Ancient Explorer, Amish Shah travels to the west coast of India in search of an ancient submerged city. With a passion for the truth, he stumbles...

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

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

Remarkable amateur footage of Mahatma Gandhi shot by his great nephew in 1947.

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

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...

Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.

A visual journey into the personal life and battles of a group of acid attack survivors in Delhi and suburbs against stigmas and prejudices in the...

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National...

A rural village never wanted to be a city’s landfill or a distant blur in Reels but rather home to new imaginations. Bringing Down a Mountain...

Short documentary on classical Indian music.

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this diverse country all together is Jewelry. Come...

Set in a small town in the region of Tamil Nadu, in southern India, the film follows the days and works of a hijra family. Silky, Mahima, Trisha,...

Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.