
28 Feb 1921

Duke of Connaught's Indian Tour
The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.


28 Feb 1921

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

01 Mar 1909

The timber trade calls on animal help.

01 Sep 2020

Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed by Mumbai's inhabitants to adapt and get around any type of constraint or obstacle posed by the city's urban structure. In a relatively small piece of land where 21 million people live today, the inhabitants of Mumbai demonstrate great creativity when it comes to managing the spaces (for sale, for prayer, for traffic) and the flows that cross them every day. Without using language, Hong Kong artist Chak Hin Leung brings together in this video a dozen unique situations in which people, animals, vehicles and natural elements intermingle and brush up against each other, without ever colliding.

01 Mar 1911

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

11 Mar 2021

Varanasi is the Indian city where Hindus go to die. Stretching along the Ganges, Varanasi holds great spiritual significance because Hindu scriptutres say that anyone who dies there will attain moksha—liberation from the cycle of rebirth. Berlin-based director Dan Braga Ulvestad captures life and death in India’s heartland in this moving documentary filled with exquisite cinematic moments. By the River starts its narrative journey with the city’s “death hotels,” dedicated apartments where people wait to die, sometimes for decades, so they can be cremated on the banks of the Ganges.

02 May 2018

The Jarawas live in the Andaman Islands on the Indian Ocean. The origin of the tribe is in Africa some 70,000 years back. They have lived in almost perfect isolation from the rest of the world until recent times.

05 Jan 1912

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

29 Dec 1902

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

13 Dec 2023

After the 1999 premiere of the first Matrix movie, it became a pop culture phenomenon. A special documentary about the Matrix saga and its prophetic aspects.

07 Jan 1903

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

01 Jun 1937

Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

01 Jun 1935

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

15 Jan 2024

After losing part of her memory in an accident, Leila, a young French woman of Iraqi origin, reconstructs her story by reconnecting with her family and exploring her roots. Through music and cinema, she brings her exiled father's poems to lite, dis-covers the reality of the Middle East, and embarks on a personal quest to understand her identity and find her voice.

25 Apr 2014

India - unique in its diversity and breathtakingly beautiful. The subcontinent is characterized by scenic, cultural and ethnic diversity. After China, India is the second most populous country in the world. Despite growing space needs, there are efforts to preserve the wilderness through nature reserves and protected areas. So India still provides habitat for rare species such as the Bengal tiger or the Indian elephant. The 5-part series "India's wild beauty" leads to the most spectacular and beautiful regions and their inhabitants. The complete series in five parts: 1 The Thar Desert 2 In the jungle, the Ghats 3 Life on the holy river 4 The Himalayas 5 In the land of Naga

14 Sep 2009

Sixteen year olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They're bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys, but they're falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as homosexuals, their stories emblazon the inner conflicts of India's gender culture today.

01 Sep 1937

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

01 Aug 1922

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

01 May 1925

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

01 Aug 1933

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

01 Feb 1934

A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.