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.
The anti-Slumdog Millionaire in documentary form, "Buzz" charts the tumultuous rise of India's most ...

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

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

A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile B...

A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO wh...

The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a ...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...
Pearl Gluck travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which...

Stand-up comedian Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years, ...

On August 15th, 2006, filmmaker Ryan Dacko set out to get a 30-minute meeting with a major Hollywood...

In 1970, Christian Ghazi and Noureddine Chatti met with a number of Arab political figures, especial...

The peaks, the valleys, and all the moments in between. Being a father is an extraordinary privilege...

A 25-year-old former cult member seeks out his family in a closed world of neon crosses, deadly alco...

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

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

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF i...

Raj Kapoor, the film maker and actor became a legend in his lifetime. Head of one of the last great ...

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

This Punjabi Movie, Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam is a Punjabi movie about Sikhism. It was a great success....

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words...