Salvation Army Parade in Indian Village - No.1 (1904)
Actuality film showing a busy Salvation Army parade in a rural village under the British Raj.
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Annual Inspection of the Bodyguard by His Excellency Lord Lytton (1925)
The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.
Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Peshawar, The Khyber Pass and Rawl Pindi (1922)
The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour
Khyber Pass; Kashmir; Agra (1928)
Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.
Dancers at Trivandrum Gopinath (1946)
Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.
Mysore Dasara (1933)
The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.
Government House Garden Party (1923)
Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.
Delhi to the North West Frontier (1935)
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
Lahore (1936)
Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.
Ajmer (1937)
Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Gangtok and Sikkim Trip (1935)
Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.
Old Barak (1947)
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Pindi Events (1940)
Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.
Kashmir (1941)
An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.
Eine Fahrt ins Märchenland Indien (1930)
Short documentary on India
Imphal Bazaar (1934)
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
Local Scenes in India and the Taj Mahal (1947)
This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.
Gardens of the Orient (1936)
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.
Music of India (1966)
Short documentary on classical Indian music.
Fascinating India (2014)
"Fascinating India" spreads an impressive panorama of India’s historical and contemporary world. The film presents the most important cities, royal residences and temple precincts. It follows the trail of different religious denominations, which have influenced India up to the present day. Simon Busch and Alexander Sass travelled for months through the north of the Indian subcontinent to discover what is hidden under India’s exotic and enigmatic surface, and to show what is rarely revealed to foreigners. The film deals with daily life in India. In Varanasi, people burn their dead to ashes. At the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious gathering of the world, 35 million pilgrims bathe in holy River Ganges. This is the first time India is presented in such an alluring and engaging fashion on screen.
Phoolan
Phoolan is a documentary film about the extraordinary life of a village girl, gang-rape survivor, bandit leader, and finally parliamentarian. This is the story of one woman’s fight against incredible odds for justice and dignity. Known as India’s Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi is considered by many to be one of the most extraordinary and controversial women of our time.