
01 Feb 1932

Madras Mylapore - Tank and Religious Processions
The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.
A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.
01 Feb 1932
The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.
10 Jul 2024
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01 Mar 1943
A stunning trek from the vale of Kashmir, via Sind Valley and Kargil and Lamayaru Monastry.
25 May 2005
Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.
15 Apr 2003
A group of teenagers from Flint, Michigan filmed themselves kidnapping and terrorizing a new acquaintance, before taking her out to a woods and dumping her in a shallow grave. They then taunted their terrified and blindfolded victim asking if she had any last requests before they cut her throat. But was the kidnap real or just a game? Three days later the tape was in the hands of the police and the 5 teenager friends were in custody facing life imprisonment. This program talks to the people at the heart of this story - including two of the defendants - in an attempt to understand what really happened in the woods around Flint last year. It also screens the video of the 'abduction'. What is revealed is an extraordinary and disturbing record of a night when something went terribly, terribly wrong.
27 Jan 2023
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16 Apr 2022
The virtually untold story of the supersize steamship’s construction: how 15,000 men toiled day and night in life-threatening conditions to create a state-of-the-art floating city.
23 Nov 2022
A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” protocols - a set of filmmaking “rules” with which groups of strangers can conceive, shoot, and screen a film in just two and a half hours. Against the grim backdrop of the stringent Shanghai lockdown, the event soon turns into a sanctuary for individuals to forge collective dreams.
31 Jul 1933
Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.
01 Jan 1956
A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.
10 Jan 1947
This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.
03 Sep 1961
Boys’ canoe trip on the Thames in London.
01 Jun 1940
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
02 Mar 1925
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
01 Jul 1947
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
01 Mar 1951
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.
01 Feb 1935
Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.
02 Feb 1931
Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.
01 Aug 1929
Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.
27 Sep 1933
The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.