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.

Saddari is a story of A 3 Young bikers decide to hit the road to another state for adventure , Endin...

Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her perform...

In 1996, Damon Hill claimed the Formula 1 world championship—defying the odds and overcoming familia...

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...

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the i...

A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from t...

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...

A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian p...

A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, wh...

A film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starvi...

Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception an...

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

A young Prince Asoka works to perfect his skills in battle and also deals with family conflict. Duri...
From dawn till dusk in the bohemian heart of London’s West End. This 1979 portrait of the people and...

A cheerful road movie all about Belgian films at Cannes over the past 70 years. Filmmakers from the ...

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Ma...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...