A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.
One Ticket Please (2017)
A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.
An Indian Day (1968)
Director S. Sukhdev traveled the length of India to gather footage for his impressionistic portrait of the country in the year 1967. The film produces the same effect on the viewers as a month-long visit to India, a sense of having seen everything and a sense of having seen nothing, both at the same time.
Street Scenes in India (1935)
From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.
Sports in the Indian Army (1910)
A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army.
Wandering Tigers in North India (1935)
Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.
Home Life (1928)
Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.
The Quetta Earthquake (1935)
Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.
Rajputana, Jhalawar, Bundi & Katakali Dancers (1940)
A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.
Indian Scene of Procession (1903)
Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.
Life in Hunza (1937)
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Malakand, Kapurthala and Dehra Dun (1922)
The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
Benares Chungking Ichang (1916)
Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.
The Last Days of the Raj (2007)
Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.