
01 Sep 1925

Annual Inspection of the Bodyguard by His Excellency Lord Lytton
The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.
The largest act of faith in history.
The Kumbh Mela is a great roving Hindu spiritual festival that has moved around India for more than four thousand years, erecting temporary cities along the Ganges River.
01 Sep 1925
The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.
10 Jan 1922
The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour
01 Feb 1928
Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.
01 May 1946
Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.
27 Sep 1933
The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.
01 Aug 1923
Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.
09 Mar 1935
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
26 Dec 1936
Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.
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.
01 Jul 1947
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
01 May 1940
Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.
01 Oct 1941
An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.
01 Jan 1930
Short documentary on India
10 Jan 1947
This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.
01 Jan 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.
01 Jan 1966
Short documentary on classical Indian music.
15 May 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 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.
09 Nov 2015
The story of Sri Prem Baba, spiritual master and humanitarian leader with followers around the world, begins when a 14-year-old from Sao Paulo, Brazil, had a vision that said: 'go to Rishikeshi, India'. This story is delightfully told by himself leading us through the odyssey that would turn an ordinary boy into Prem Baba. Memories of friends, admirers and followers take us along the paths of the prosperous therapist who sank into a deep existential crisis and finally found India, where he would devote himself, after much debate, to his master and his destiny. A rich journey of enlightenment that brings us precious reflections on the meaning of life and the role of each one on this planet.