
18 Nov 2017

Once Upon a Cow
Through this exploration of three cows, each living in a very different environment, this documentary reveals the daily life and behavior of this fascinating animal with highly developed social intelligence.
How does India, where there are retirement homes for sacred cows, handle the mad cow crisis?
A documentary about Hindu cow worship and the British BSE crisis.
18 Nov 2017
Through this exploration of three cows, each living in a very different environment, this documentary reveals the daily life and behavior of this fascinating animal with highly developed social intelligence.
30 Nov 2017
This portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, moves through the corridors and bowels of the enormously disorienting structure—taking the viewer on a journey of dehumanizing physical labor and intense hardship.
15 Jan 2022
Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his daughter to retrace his journey. Using archival footage and interviews with teammates, she reveals lives shaped by the Gold, and by Partition that made them refugees. Revealed also is a friend in Pakistan never spoken of before. Her journey in search of him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).
27 Mar 1985
In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.
18 Jun 2021
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
30 Jan 2021
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.
18 Feb 2019
Shot over three years, Pariah Dog paints a kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, seen through the prism of four outsiders and the dogs they love. These men and women have found meaning and purpose in their shared mission to care for neglected street dogs, who have existed in the towns and villages of India for thousands of years. For some this mission is enough, for others, dreams of a better life are always near.
01 Jan 1975
Documentary on the river Ganges.
05 Feb 1938
Life on the road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.
05 Feb 1938
Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythologies associated with them.
22 Sep 2016
Set in a small town in the region of Tamil Nadu, in southern India, the film follows the days and works of a hijra family. Silky, Mahima, Trisha, Durga, Kuyili, Priyanka, Vasundhara and Yamuna, under the firm protection of their guru Lakshmi Ma, deliver snippets of their marginal but sovereign existence. From a millenia-old sacred tradition to getting by every second, "Guru" composes with them a poem of intertwined voices in which the world is a tough playground, where the third gender is primarily the resistance force of a life shared.
13 Mar 2017
A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.
31 Jan 1903
Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.
01 Jan 1912
King George V and Queen Mary hold ceremonial court in Delhi.
28 Dec 2011
The gang embarks on a trade mission to India. Equipped with three old British cars and a range of uniquely British products, they set off on an epic road trip across one of the world's most fascinating and challenging countries.
06 Jun 1952
This Traveltalk series short visits a few locations where the centuries-old traditions of ancient India are kept alive in contemporary times.
11 Sep 2008
RROMANI SOUL traces the true origin of the Rroma people. Through rituals, song and dance we follow emblematic figure and "Queen of the Gypsies" Esma Redzepova to Macedonia, south of France and finally to India. The film reveals for the first time ever that the true and unique origin of the Rroma is Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh, India.
01 Jun 1922
Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.
13 Apr 2016
Once facing extinction, Asia's last wild lions live dangerously close to India's villages.
01 May 1920
Behind the scenes at a Chennai teachers training college.