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 sights and culture of a bygone India. Filmed between 1899-1947, and preserved in the BFI National Archive since then, these rare films capture many glimpses of life in India, from dances and markets, to hunts and pageantry.
David Lloyd George tours Germany, escorted by Nazi government officials, while his chauffeurs lark a...

Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. ...

An aspiring photojournalist takes a trip to Julian, CA to learn about the history of two wolf specie...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

The intimate and passionate portrait of the late Max Croci in a documentary that recalls the human a...

Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as...

Join self confessed petrol-head Guy Martin as he learns about the alternative to the internal combus...

This cinematic portrait shows the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work. The much-discussed ‘Seidl...

Sunderbans (Forest of Beauty) is in West Bengal, India, and is the only place on Earth that is the n...

Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in hi...

A documentary film about the Slovenian filmmaker Boštjan Hladnik.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. T...
A jetliner spans the miles, sheering through clouds to open sky and scenic vistas of the provinces b...

The story of Sri Prem Baba, spiritual master and humanitarian leader with followers around the world...

A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told ...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile B...
The work of a district officer in the province of Bengal.

The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a ...