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.

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coron...

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. T...

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North i...

A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told ...

Take a chilling tour through the twisted minds of some of the most violent serial killers including ...

Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the s...

‘Bring Out a Briton’ was a short appeal for Australians to help the Immigration Department in its pl...

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

The Irreversible Odyssey is a retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Gaspar Noé, actors...

By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divi...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

Journey across India, a breath taking land shaped by a myriad of cultures, customs and traditions. C...

A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunt...

Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teach...

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

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

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...